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Originally Posted by chedder
No fiasco? We were set to pick at the 14th spot. We traded down to go totally off the board. We could have had Wilson Hertl or Teravainen, who are all very good impactful players. Heck any player between 14 and our pick at 21 were way better.
Or am I missing some green text?
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Coulda, shoulda, woulda. The scouts saw a player they liked and had at the top of their list. None of the players in question were obviously higher on the list. The scouts build the overall list. If this is a fiasco, so is Treliving trading down multiple times this past draft, which I don't think was a mistake. You go with your list and you stick with it. They believed in Jankowski and thought he was a good pick at that position. There were other teams in on him too and the Flames made the pick when they did and hoped the second they gained in trade (Sieloff) would payoff as well. Good gamble, bad outcome.
What was a fiasco was player development. Both players were let down by our player development. Sieloff just never went anywhere. We forget that Jankowski scored 17 goals and 14 goals in his first two full seasons in the NHL. He was on a good track, then got shuffled around and lost his way, not unlike Bennett. The sad thing is Jankowski had really good skills but no fight. Bennett had really good fight but no skills. Too bad you couldn't combine them.