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Originally Posted by Classic_Sniper
Really? Like Sam Bennett is the only 4th overall pick to have not lived up to expectations? That’s nor fair, I feel like a lot of teams bungle up high picks from time to time, not just the Flames. Monahan and Tkachuk ended up working out pretty well for where they were drafted. Bennett was probably the only disappointment.
I actually think had Tkachuk continued to play with Bennett, he might have been sent back to London. Tkachuk was not guaranteed to stay up with the big club. He just happened to find a really good fit with Backlund and Frolik right away and he was off to the races.
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No other team could make a call after 3 games, only the Flames have that type of insight. Other teams give those players a tonne of rope, even when they are struggling early in their careers. Draisaitl played with Eberle and Perron in his rookie year most of the time and he really sucked at hockey that year. Second year he played with Hall. Barkov played with Brad Boyes in his first year and Hubredeau and Jagr in year two. He was very average in both those years.
Sam played year one with Backlund and Frolik. He got 18 goals on that line that year. After that they buried him with garbage. There are a lot of top picks that are busts, very few are busts without the opportunity to play with the organizations top players for an extended period of time before making that determination.