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Originally Posted by ForeverFlameFan
I wasn't really paying attention to the draft last year, but why didn't Treliving just use the 2017 1st rounder to grab Hamonic? Wouldn't it have been easier to trade a pick that you already knew had its position? Did he just simply forecast that we'd have a 20's pick in 2018? I feel like he should have just traded the 2017 pick just in case we didn't have the best season (which we did).
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Treliving said at the time that the Flames liked Valimaki much more than any players they would be slated to select in the 2018 draft, and I suspect they still stand quite firmly by that claim even @ #12.