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Originally Posted by activeStick
I feel like over the past 3-4 years, the Flames often have their draft picks perform at really high levels in their respective development leagues, sometimes in the top 10 scoring races. These players are often drafted in later rounds too. That's what my memory tells me at least.
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They are picking for skill. Which is important. Skilled guys with warts in their games that can be fixed. The way it is set up you could lose a Mangiapane and replace him with a Phillips (perhaps) and then have a Kerins/Francis slide into the AHL and produce for a few years and come up and replace.
It is what good organizations (Tampa) do.