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Originally Posted by Flash Walken
The narrative is the Flames have to be one of the best drafting organizations in the league to be one of the best teams in the league in a given year. The examples of the best drafting teams over the last 5 years all happen to be the best teams in the league.
Do you think that is a coincidence? Can you asnwer Ricardo's point about showing an example of a team that has successfully built their organization by trading draft picks for immediate help?
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The narrative is focusing on the last four years, not on drafting in general. If you wish to broaden the point, that's fine, but it turns it into a different conversation.
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Drafted Goals in the last 4 drafts:
Calgary: 79 (if you include dougie which I don't, 121)
Jets: 187
Tampa: 60
Boston: 148
Nashville: 142
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First off, you credited Nashville with 35 phantom goals. They actually have 107. Definitely better than Calgary, but entirely a function of Victor Arvidsson having four years of experience vs. Tkachuk having two.
At a glance though, it would appear that the Flames are actually well above average in this metric. There are not a lot of teams with more goals over the last four drafts than Calgary's 79, and those that are above almost inevitably had one or more picks in the top three overall.
So, if you want to put all your chickens into this one basket, then the indication is that Treliving is doing well. Though, of course, his screw up with this year's draft is going to hurt that.