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Originally Posted by Bingo
Was thinking the same and I could do that.
The problem is we are really only looking at three draft years and comparing it to the league.
2015 2016 and 2017
But if you look at 2015 to 2020 only Washington, Pittsburgh and St. Louis have had less draft capital, which is a pretty good strike against Treliving from that crowd.
Moving picks as if a contender without getting any results of a contender.
Aside from that though the Flames have the second best games played / draft capital spent (behind Columbus) in this time frame.
To me that jumps off the page when it comes to what myself and others are saying. They're finding value despite spending too many picks.
The teams mentioned above ... Washington, Pittsburgh and St. Louis (Calgary's peers for draft capital) are worst, 5th worse and 10th in this category (St. Louis doing quite well).
Games played isn't an impact stat, but it's a pretty objective quick measure that is valued equally.
Calgary is 8th in games played in this time frame.
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The irony, then, is that if Calgary's strength is its amateur scouting department that we are really not playing to our strengths by trading away so many picks. If anything, we should have been trying to acquire as many picks as we could to maximize the value of our strong amateur scouting.