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Originally Posted by GioforPM
Tough to do after the Janko fiasco.
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I don’t buy that, I personally think it had to do with Brian Burke more than anything. You had Tod Button who in 2011 had 2 wildcards in Kucherov and Gaudreau who he thought would be NHLers, then Burke takes over the helm and the Flames start drafting plugs like Hunter Smith and Keegan Kanzig. Bennett even in the juniors played with a ton of bite and edge. He was 100% a Burke type of player.
I think if it was up to Tod Button, I bet he would’ve preferred an Ehlers or Nylander instead. I think at the very least he would’ve been all over a Brayden Point instead of Hunter freakin Smith or a Brandon Hickey. Button likes the smaller skilled guys and Ehlers and Point are of the smaller and skilled variety.