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Originally Posted by SuperMatt18
This is the one that stands out to me too - another top 6 forward would be huge for this team.
The Bennett pick isn't even the one that makes me mad in that draft - since him or Dal Colle were pretty much the consensus picks at number 4 / 5.
Would I love to have Ehlers, Larkin, or Pastrnak...of course but those guys were never really in the discussion at #4. Bennett was the right pick at the time. He was the skilled, gritty center this team needed, he was highly touted, but he just failed to develop (Whether that's on him or the organization is a different question).
The two that piss me off in that draft are:
1) Taking McDonald over Demko when Demko was the #1 ranked goalie in that draft.
2) Not drafting Point and instead drafting Hunter Smith and Brandon Hickey. Point was the local kid who was rumored to have been public about wanting to play in Calgary, and who lots of media members were clamoring for the Flames to draft.
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Agreed, some fans like to think "what if" surrounding Kadri, my "what ifs" mostly surround that draft (neither is productive and I just didn't want to dwell too much) but...
Point, Demko and Bennett at full potential, that would have changed the complexity of this team for over a decade.