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Originally Posted by Roof-Daddy
This is a cop out and I used to feel the same but with the Flames it seems 99% of the time you look back on their drafts and do this because it's rarely the other way around. These scouts are paid to use foresight to figure out what the rest of us have to use hindsight for.
It's funny how more often than not it's the same group of teams that manage to pull high level NHLers from the depths of the draft, and continue to toil away at the top of the standings because of it. They may have a bad year or two while they retool but before you know it they are back on top because they aren't completely incompetent at finding elite talent throughout the draft.
Teams like Anaheim, Boston, Tampa, Nashville and San Jose for example.
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You're quite right, of course. It's not like the Flames have ever managed to get a decent NHL player out of the fourth round.