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Originally Posted by Crown Royal
I don't understand why so many people think trading pick #19 for Kuemper is such a terrible idea. Do you all not remember the last time a draft was hyped like this? Picks 17-22 were Lazar, Mueller, Rychel, Mantha ad Gauthier. mid-late first round picks are ridiculously overrated by people.
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Here are the players to go 18-22 in the last 10 drafts.
2010: Watson, Bjugstad, Bennett, Sheahan, Tinordi
2011: McNeil, Klefbom, Murphy, Noesen, Biggs
2012: Teravainen, Vasilevski, Laughton, Jankowski, Maatta
2013: Mueller, Rychel, Mantha , Gauthier, Poirier
2014: Tuch, DeAngelo, Schmaltz, Fabbri, Kapanen
2015: Chabot, Svechnikov, Eriksson-Ek, White, Samsonov
2016: Fabbro, Stanley, Bellows, Gauthier, Rubtsov
2017: Vaakanainen, Norris, Thomas, Chytil, Yamamoto
2018: Foudy, O'Brian, Kupari, Merkley, Miller
2019: Harley, Thomson, Heinola, Poulin, Bjornfot
There tends to be at least two guys a season that become a key player taken in that range. Honestly I'd much rather a shot at a top propsect vs 2 years of a goalie that has been great the last two years, but wasn't very good before that.
Also Flames have drafted quite well recently, so I'd rather hope they could hit on a pick and find a guy that contributes here long term vs. a short term goalie who is already 30.