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Originally Posted by SuperMatt18
If you can get 2-3 guys that look like "real NHL prospects" each draft then that is actually pretty good.
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To add to that, I think you have to consider the other "Free" acquisitions as well. The Flames in the past 12 months also added Foo and Gadwin to the organization. Those are on-par with 2nd and 3rd round picks if you ask me...maybe not the lottery ticket potential...but they are a couple years further along and might be able to help you ASAP! And they could be with us -> under team control -> for a long time.
Oh ya -> and our missing 1st rounder this year wasn't for nothing. We did get Hammer on a team-friendly contract.
So although it really hurt on June 22nd, 2018 - we still had a great late-round draft, brought in Gadwin and Foo and have a guy anchoring our 2nd pairing for the foreseeable future.