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Originally Posted by Icon
Easy to preach, harder to practice.
So you're drafting 10th, the top 5 C of the generally accepted draft rankings have been drafted ahead of you... do you skip over the next half dozen or dozen of the best on the board to grab a later ranked overall, next-best center? Get in the habit of always trading down? Always spend to trade up?
If the draft was easy, most of the teams in the same boat here wouldn't be.
I totally agree the Flames have missed the boat on drafting Cs with lots of potential instead of wingers or D. But at the same time, they've tried to be "smarter than the rest" before (Janko for example).
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Then you draft the BPA and take a C in the 2nd round or 3rd round. Hopefully you haven't spent those picks like candy.
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Originally Posted by Roof-Daddy
Yeah, but when you're 4th overall pick, who was supposed to be your future #1C, flat lines, you have to try and make do.
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Sure. But we can walk and chew gum at the same time. 5 years and Dubé is our only real pull on the C slot machine. The drafting success rate has been excellent, but only 9 picks in the top 90 in that span (compared to default 15).