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Originally Posted by Inglewood Jack
That’s gonna happen even to teams with good scouting (not sure if ours fell into that category at the time), which is why you help minimize the pain of busts by sheer quantity. I’m convinced that if the Flames kept all their picks since then, avoided UFAs and stuck to tweak level trades, we’d have a higher ceiling and more cost efficient roster today with a longer competitive window.
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Scouting is extremely hard, and I tend to think that the Flames made really smart picks in the first round of 2013. Poirier looked like an absolute steal for the first two years after the draft—but the way life took a toll on him and derailed his hockey career is not something that scouts or teams can really plan for. It's tragic, but it happens.