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Originally Posted by Strange Brew
Was thinking about this some more today. This is from drafts 2015 to 2020? Will be interesting to track this ranking over time as I'd imagine Flames will be moving down in both categories. As others have pointed out, the 2018 draft looks bad and maybe 2017 too. As games played increases for players from those draft years, Flames will look worse over time.
What is certain is that 2015 and 2016 were good draft years for the Flames.
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2017 and 2018 probably won't move the Flames down because the picks they had were lower valued ones.
And I don't think 2018 looks bad relative to the picks they had. With 5 late round picks there are 3 intriguing prospects: Pospisil, Pettersson and Little Z. I consider both to be long shots still but right now they look like solid picks.
2018 hinges on Juuso but he is an NHLer so by a games played metric he will help that draft look like a relative success for the Flames. What remains to be seen is if he's a bottom pairing guy, top 4 or top 2.
I think Nikolev is still an intriguing prospect and then of course you have the x factor that is Dustin Wolf.
So I don't see how at this stage we can even label them as "bad"