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Originally Posted by The Original FFIV
Nailed it
2016 notwithstanding as we made out pretty good with Tkachuk, 2011-14 drafts tell a tale of 2 small market Canadian franchises
2011 - jets get schiefele at 7, we get Baertschi at 13
2012 - jets draft Trouba at 9, we get Janko 21 and a 2nd round pick of sfa for trading down
2013 - we get mony at 6, jets get morrisey at 13
2014 - we get bennett at 4, jets get ehlers at 8
Over this 4 year period, jets drafted a 1c, 2 top 4 d and top 6 f. We did not. Hope the jets scouts got a good bonus for their work.
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Ha ha By the end of the 2012-13 season the Flames clearly won the 2011 Draft, Schiefiele 11 NHL games 1 goal with 1 pt in 10 AHL playoff games
Baertschi was on his way to being all world with 25 NHL games 6 goals 13 pts (over .5 pts a game) and 26 pts in 35 games in the AHL a league he was obviously too good for.
Flames should have trade Baertschi for Schiefele and a 3rd.
You wonder how it would have turned out had the Jets drafted Baertschi and gave him a full year with no call ups like the Jets did to 2011 #67 overall Lowry. Lowry out of the same draft didn't get a sniff of the NHL until 2013-14 about the time that Baertschi started his downward trend
On the upside it seems that the Flames have learned and are not playing Pelletier in the top 6 this year... Baertschi-style