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Originally Posted by Jiri Hrdina
They tried to kick open the window too fast and it burned them. Yes the Sam pick was a factor too, but if they were more patient the could have offset that with a couple other higher picks.
The only funny thing is that after watching that happen the Canucks went and made the EXACT SAME MISTAKE.
Stupid Canucks learning from the Stupid Flames.
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The Sam pick was huge. I’d argue that Monahan and Tkachuk, the only other reasonably high picks, play at their draft position. But a 4OA should be your stud centre and if we could have run with a centre of, say Brayden Point quality, followed by Monahan and Backlund at their present levels (with or without Lindholm as well), the team would be a contender.
But yeah, 2015 PO run happened after the Sam draft, and the Flames got over excited and traded for Hamilton, with a pick that could have been Barzal, Conner, Boeser or Konecny (or some that didn’t work out of course).