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Originally Posted by blankall
Fair enough. I missed him. Dobson had a great year.
Would Calgary have made that same choice though? The problem with the Flames defence at that time was they had lots of young talent, but needed solid veterans to step in then. The Flames already had Valimaki, Kylington, and Andersson in the pipeline. Every top pick since 2018 has been a forward. The Flames didn't draft a single defenceman in 2018, with the 5 picks they did have, and didn't draft a single d-man in 2019 either. I seriously doubt they were grabbing Dobson.
Once again, we're playing the hindsight game. Pretty easy to go back 4 years and spot pick the only good player in the first round, outside of the top 6 and say that the Flames could have drafted them.
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You can blame hindsight but hindsight said you were wrong so you were still wrong.
It would be hard for the Flames to justify his existence after this year if they lost their 2 best players and have a bad year
He has a little bit of time to get a good return for Tkachuk and shows the team can still compete but that’s his last shot. IMO of course