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Originally Posted by CliffFletcher
Draft picks are crap shoots. But no team gets anywhere without hitting the jackpot with some of those picks. A franchise that traded away all of its late 1st, 2nd round, and 3rd round picks for depth NHLers would eventually wind up the worst team in the league.
Lazar is a good example of why it's folly. There's a good chance that 2nd round pick will be a bust. However, there's maybe a 25 per cent change it turns into a good NHLer player (better than than Lazar), and a 10 per cent chance it becomes a front-line difference-maker. And you can pick up fringe NHLers for almost nothing (Shore cost a 7th).
Good NHL franchises hoard picks and use them to draft and develop players with a high ceiling. Bad ones use those picks to patch holes that their drafting and development have failed to address, and those patches almost always have low ceilings. It's a recipe for mediocrity.
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Actually, Flames loaded up on draft picks over the past few years. With that in mind, I think it was a calculated risk by Treliving to pay that much for Hamonic because he believed the Flames stocked up in the previous years, they could afford it.
Treliving's biggest failure is Gulutzan. The guy should have been fired before Christmas. I've been preaching that all year and it looks like I was right. If GG survives the summer, Treliving's is on the hot seat.
I would also add, we're a bit unlucky in the sense that Bennett has been a bust so far. If he had become at least a 50pt centre, the scoring problems would not be such a problem for this team. As it is...
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