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Originally Posted by GranteedEV
the Flames may be building though the draft but we've mishandled quite a few of them, especially the 10-75 range since 2013:
Klimchuk - Bust
Poirier - Bust
Kanzig - Never an NHL talent
McDonald - goalie, crapshoot
Hunter Smith - never an NHL talent
Hickey - didn't sign, was sold for virtually nothing
2015 1st - Could have been Barzal/Boeser/Connor
2015 2nd - Could have been Sprong
2015 2nd - Could have beeb Cirelli
Andersson - We signed Stone and blocked him, probably killing any trade value he might have
Kylington - Good pick being blocked by a lack of need
2016 2nd - Could have been DeBrincat or Kyrou
Parsons - goalie, crapshoot
Dube - Good pick, but not a RW
Fox - Blocked like Andersson and probably not gonna sign like Hickey because of it
Valimaki - Good pick, but not a RW
2017 2nd - I doubt Lazar pans out. Jury's out
2018 1st - None
2018 2nd - None
2018 3rd - None
2019 2nd - None
I get that people are high on Hamilton but I don't know how this team wouldn't be elite by adding one of that year's studs at forward. I mean the only RW we have drafted in this range in the last five drafts plus this year's draft is Hunter Smith. No wonder we have the weakest RW depth in the NHL. We either don't make a pick at all, or draft anything but forwards.
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This is so unbelievably reaching it borders on being obtuse.
You can take just about every team in the league and make a list like this, lamenting over players they could have taken years back in a draft with 20/20 hindsight.