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Originally Posted by sureLoss

Also closes the condition where if the Flames were to re-sign Forbort the 2021 4th they gave to LA would become a 2022 3rd.

It's definitely good that they've gotten rid of these as possible conditions on trades.

Originally Posted by GioforPM

It’s funny how, when we discuss missed draft picks, we always forget other teams’ having the same issue. Derek F was 15th overall, one in front of Tarasenko. And he’s not even the worst example of that from the 2010 draft.

Not sure you can call Forbort a miss; he's almost certainly in the top third of #15 picks in the last 31 years:

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right columns are: gp - points)
1973 F Alexei Kovalev 1316 1029
1978 F Dainius Zubrus 1293 591
1990 D Erik Karlsson 736 603
1993 F J.T. Miller 504 309
1994 D Ryan Pulock 234 108
1986 F Alexander Radulov 442 334
1996 F Dylan Larkin 389 266

1993 D Cody Ceci 496 126
1992 D Derek Forbort 275 53

1974 F Mats Lindgren 387 128
1991 F Peter Holland 266 85
1985 F Robert Nilsson 252 118
1973 D Jason Bowen 77 8
1987 F Ryan O'Marra 33 7
1977 D Jeff Ware 21 1
1989 D Alex Plante 10 2

1980 G Mathieu Chouinard 1 0
1988 G Riku Helenius 1 0
1971 D Jason Soules
1975 F Alexander Kharlamov
1979 F Matt Zultek
1981 F Scott Kelman
1982 F Artem Kryukov
1983 D Igor Knyazev
1983 F Jesse Niinimäki

TBD:
2000 F Grigory Denisenko
2001 F Cole Caufield
2001 F Rodion Amirov
1999 D Erik Brännström 33 4
1997 F Luke Kunin 131 52
1997 F Zach Senyshyn 6 3

You can go back further and find Sakic, MacInnis, McCrimmon, but lots of other busts, too - I just like 1990 as an arbitrary cut off for the 'modern' drafting era