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Originally Posted by Aarongavey
The Flames should draft more goalies to increase their odds of developing one. In the BT era they have drafted 3 goalies in 6 drafts. The Flames has not even had a legitimate starter during those six years, so it is clearly a position of need.
You would be hard pressed to find a team that has drafted fewer goalies over that period of time in the NHL. All the more perplexing when one considers it is the position that has the longest development curve. BT could try to address this in the next two drafts and pick say 3 more goalies to increase his odds and maybe one would develop into a NHL starter by 2025. Just perplexing as to why he drafted so few goalies over that period of time, given the lack of organizational depth at that position.
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It all comes back to a shortage of picks in the last couple drafts IMO. If you only have 3-4 picks in a draft you are going to be less likely to draft a goalie with one of those picks.
But yeah I was looking at the draft patterns for two teams that have kind of been NHL goalie factories in Washington and Nashville and their pattern in the past was that they were drafting a goalie per draft on average.
At the same time though it's not always the smartest to use draft capital on goalies. They are hard to predict, have long development times, and most often move teams before really breaking out as a goalie.
What the Flames have been been poor at doing is identifying what goalie to acquire at the pro level with strong pro scouting and have wasted assets on Smith/Elliott when better goalies were available.