The 2004 draft still strikes me as funny. Flames traded down and the speculation at the time was that Zajac was their guy and they were convinced he would drop. Zajac went on the very next pick and the Flames drafted his teammate Chucko instead. I don't think anyone had Chucko going that early and it seemed like the Flames scrambled and picked a prospect they were familiar with having heavily scouted Salmon Arm. Maybe Chucko was their guy the whole time, but it seemed suspect.
We then traded the 2nd rounder acquired for moving down, for two 3rd rounders and actually did OK with those picks (Prust and Boyd).
But we did potentially pass up on some much better players for trading down.
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