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Originally Posted by ComixZone
It's amazing work to find Andersson, Kylington, Mangiapane, and Gaudreau where we found them - but we need those diamonds in the rough to build upon the foundational picks that we just have not made.
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Hopefully Kerins and Wolf join that group soon.
The Flames have been good finding decent players outside of the 1st round in recent years, but you are right that being able to draft a superstar in the top 3 is something that can't be understated. It can make up for a lot of other mistakes and allows teams to take bigger risks that have higher rewards, while not hurting things if it doesn't work out.
One thing I will say, and I think the Flames have been doing this more lately, is that draft picks should almost always be used on high reward prospects even if there is considerable risk. It's how we got Gaudreau or how Tampa got Kucherov. Average players are pretty easy to get via other means, so I think you need to shoot for the stars with every pick. If you can get just one really good player in any draft, that is good enough and the rest can be wasted.