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GioforPM
Hah.
The funny thing is, there aren’t a whole lot of players taken afterwards that have done any better (especially round one). It wasn’t a great draft year.
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If memory serves the logic behind the Flames trading down that year was they thought they could profit off of being the smartest guys in the room about Jankowski into additional draft capital and take the guy they wanted all along later. The next five picks after the Flames original slot in order was Ceci, Wilson, Hertl, Teravaianen, Vasilevski, it's pretty tough to know we skipped over all five of those guys to draft Jankowski. Any of those guys would be a great investment of a mid first round pick today, and it's not totally using the benefit of hindsight since it's five picks in a row immediately after, odds are good we might have taken one of them.