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Originally Posted by GioforPM
If you want to be fair, you’d mention they made 2 second round picks in each of 2014, 2015 and 2016.
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To be accurate:
Between 2014 and 2020, if you sum up all draft picks, the Flames have made
Two less 1st round picks
Two less 3rd round pick (we have an extra for 2021)
One extra 4th round pick.
Two less 5th round picks
For additional context, I will add 2013 to the numbers, because that's when Iggy was traded and "the rebuild" was started.
This is the total number of picks made in comparison to expected, per round, during all of the Flames "rebuild":
One less 2nd round pick
Two less 3rd round picks
Two less 5th round picks
One extra 7th round pick.
Basically there was never a rebuild, at least not through the draft. We only made 11 picks combined in 2014 and 2015. Treliving was fast-tracking the rebuild from the moment he got here, and this is pretty much why we're now sitting at the bottom of the standings
If you compare to for example the LA Kings, during their 2003-2009 rebuild, they had
4 extra 1st round picks
1 extra 2nd round pick
2 extra 3rd round picks
2 extra 5th round picks
2 extra 7th round pick
That's a pretty big difference.