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Originally Posted by GioforPM
Calgary would, historically. The Flames would be stretching to claim 20%:
Valimaki/Pelletier - we'll see
Tkachuk - check
Bennett - ummm - maybe?
Monahan - check
Poirier - nope
Klimchuk - nope
Janko - nope
Sven - nope
Erixon - nope
Neimisz - nope
Backs - check
Irving - nope
Pelech - nope
Chucko - nope
Dion - I guess?
Nystrom - meh
Kobasew - meh
Krahn - nope
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Mostly agree with your list:
But for some context the best players in the next 20 picks:
Bennett - The next 3 were (Dal Colle, Vitanen, Fleury). Nylander/Ehlers/Fiala/Larkin/Tuch/Fabbri/Kapanaen went in the first round, but were not ranked in the same tier as Bennett.
In a pefect world the team could have gone with Nylander/Ehlers but with Gaudreau/Hudler leading the charge they probably wanted some size/grit.
Poirier/Klimchuk - were Theodore/Burakovsky/Hartman/Jarry. So other than Theodore, turned out there wasn't a ton of talent available in that part of the draft.
Janko - The best players after him were Matheson/Maata/Skjei/Pearson. So overall not the worst pick - considering how many misses there were, and none of those guys are game breakers (yet).
Tkachuk - I think you can argue he is the second best player in that draft behind Mathews. The Other in contention are Laine/Mcavoy. So we have to be pretty thankful to get that at 5 with Puujarvi, Juulevi going in front of him.
Phaneuf - Although he played 1k games the pick looks a lot worse when you look at the talent after him - Carter/Brown/Seabrook/Parise/Getzlaf/Burns/Kesler/Richards/Perry