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Originally Posted by Erick Estrada
Kekalainen must have had inside intel on this player than most teams and scouts did not. I'm not so sure the Flames don't pick him at that position and I still have the THN draft issue where they compare both him and Laine and make a compelling case for that he was just as good of a player.
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I think you are probably right, but unlike the Oilers, I suspect that Toronto, Columbus, Winnipeg, Vancouver, Calgary, Arizona, and Buffalo had a really good handle on what sort of player Puljujarvi is, what sort of person he is, and the best approach for his successful development.
But I also wonder about this: if the teams did their due diligence, and if Puljujarvi and his agent have been difficult in their discussions with the Oilers about the Ahl, I would think this is something that would have come out in a proper pre-draft investigation of the player. If other teams had done their homework, I imagine this was likely a detractor in their view of Puljujarvi.