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Originally Posted by Textcritic
This brings us right back to a question I asked earlier that you have yet to answer. You seem very put-out by the fact the Flames moved a first round pick in THIS DRAFT on the premise that this was a sacrifice of "the future." The Flames first round pick is #26 in a marginal draft: so, which player are they missing out on as a result of this trade?
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And then what? lol
The thread will be more on topic if I answer that? The debate will end?
Fine. I do have a player in mind, Mattias Hävelid.
I think he's one of the most talented players in the draft, highly under-rated because he's only as big as...well, Cale Makar for instance. In terms of ceiling, way...way way above Toffoli. And he only plays better in tournament play. His playoff drive, his position, his skillsets are all what the Flames should have been after years ago.
But obviously that's not at all how it goes down, the scouts would work against an ordered list, not just pick a player to draft ahead of time (we would hope).
So I have no idea what the point of that was, maybe you're trying to prove that we can't predict the future? Maybe Toffoli will get better and better into his 30's and these first rounders will all just switch to soccer? Maybe you're trying to prove that even though we missed out on loads of talent with all our previous pick giveaways, this will be different?
There is loads of talent in this draft, whoever is calling it weak is way off.
The whole mindsight of it being trivial to part with picks, in any round or place or in any year, is a big big problem that has really hurt this club.
Every time we do it, the fans defend it. And every time, the arguement is "yeah generally you don't want to lose picks but this was different". But it's never..ever different.