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Originally Posted by Bingo
Two things that I feel are true.
1. You want a scouting staff with conviction. If you like someone take him. Don't worry about some fake consensus that doesn't exist, especially in a draft like this.
2. Flames scouts have done very well in the last four or five drafts in finding value. I know nothing about this player, but if they like him their recent success suggests I'm willing to give them the benefit of the result, and not over react to simple internet summaries and rankings.
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While it's true that Flames scouts have done well in the last four or five drafts in finding value, they've done so by drafting undersized players with outstanding production or stats (Mangiapane, Fox, Pelletier, Wolf).
In fact, they seem to have made missteps when selecting big toolsy players with underwhelming stats (Nikolayev, Kuznetsov, Stromgren) early, though of course it's too early for the final analysis. This pick seems a lot more like a Stromgren than a Fox.