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Originally Posted by Mr.Coffee
The Flames need to be drafting and signing western Canadians, who have family within the region. Not Coronatos and building a team around all the Americans, who don’t want to be in Calgary and if push comes to shove won’t be. There is a reasonably high chance Coranato doesn’t sign here… how bad will that look? Time to shift to western Canadian kids who have some semblance of Calgary and what it’s about.
Furthermore, I’m not really interested in cheering for exclusively mercenaries anyway.
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Nope. You take the best player available. People need to stop being afraid that somebody might not sign or might leave after being here for 9 years like Gaudreau.
Gaudreau is still the Flames best pick of the last 2 decades. Tkachuk the second best pick.
If they use your theory then they would have picked Tyson Jost at 6 instead of Tkachuk, a good Alberta boy!
Even Adam Fox who refused to sign here brought the Flames back more value than the average 3rd, and a lot more than the next western canadian kid taken (whoever this is
https://www.hockeydb.com/ihdb/stats/...php?pid=171875)
Now when there is a great local talent on the board that is the best player available they should take him (Brayden Point), or even just give a local kid in the organization that leads the farm team in scoring for three seasons more than 10 minutes to prove himself (Phillips)