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Originally Posted by DazzlinDino
I wonder if the Flames track players they didn't pick as part of their review. We do seem to covet talented players not sure what happened there!
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What happened is that Brian Burke was the interim GM during the season (he hired Treliving in May - Treliving was at draft). While GM, Burke led the scouting meeting in December and as every GM does instructed the scouts on the type of player he wants.
After Feaster’s imperative to get high IQ, skilled players regardless of size, Burke wanted bigger, truculent players added to the system.
I’m not an anti Burke guy but he wanted bigger players and if you look at 2014 draft that’s what the scouts and Button delivered. Treliving had his own ideas about the types of players he covets and you see it in the subsequent drafts.