I completely agree with FW's notion about draft pick quantity. The flip side of this same issue is how absolutely terrible the Flames drafting has been for decades.
Since picking Gary Roberts at #12 in 1984, here is who the Flames organization has selected with their first available pick each year:
Regardless of what circumstances lead this being their highest draft pick in a year, I find it hard to believe that any team’s amateur scouting has a worse track record in making their most important decision each year.
28 years between Roberts and Monahan = Stillman, Phaneuf, Backlund, Morris, and 24 varying levels of disappointment.