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Originally Posted by Flash Walken
What is your evidence that the last 3 drafts have been better than the 3 previous to those ones?
How many teams have drafted less frequently than Calgary in just the last 4 years?
My whole argument, for years at this point, is that the organization is too asset poor to be trading draft picks away for players, and given their dismal record finding players deep in the draft, they need to prioritize moving assets that have value now for futures that may not have as much value now.
When Tre was moving out guys like Hudler and Russell for picks and the team still made noise anyway, I thought that was great.
When the team moved a bunch of picks and were awful, I thought that was not so great.
Why are you trying so hard to dismiss my arguments like referring to ancient history when I'm talking about drafting as recently as 5 years ago?
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What evidence have you provided?
I get it, there's a big group of people that want to believe the sky is falling, but I'm just not one of those people. I know I annoy you, you have a view and you don't want anyone getting in the way of a good pity party but it's getting really old and really weak.
Recent re-drafts have had the Flames with 3 first rounders in the 2016 draft ... that seems like a good sign.
Last year's first round pick has moved up 5-7 places in redrafts less than a year old.
They've found Fox, Phillips, Mangiapane and to a less "cooked" degree Joly and Rucizka that are at least intriguing.
They certainly have changed the organization's old safe view into a swing for the fence in late rounds angle that has paid off.
So go ahead and feel bad about stuff, I won't get in the way, I'm certainly not as pissy about people not agreeing with me as the like of you are about not finding lemmings to follow them off a cliff.
Just move on ... you'll find others to wallow with.