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Originally Posted by GioforPM
Only one really - Tkachuk. Monahan was a pretty good one but for various reasons flamed out early. Bennett wasn't successful here, and is still a middle six guy at best - not elite.
The Flames had one high draft pick become an elite player in recent years. The Flames success in getting elite players, when it has come, usually is from striking gold with a Newy in the 2nd, an undrafted Gio, or late pick swings on undersized guys like Gaudreau or Fleury or Loob.
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What a strategy. Has yielded them the corresponding level of playoff success over the years.
Not sure if you're trying to say the Flames don't need high picks to get great players? High draft picks are simply the best way to get the best players, I don't really see how that's even an argument.
2/3 of the top picks in that era were franchise changing picks in Monahan and Tkachuk, Monahan's subsequent injury problems don't make him a bad pick. The fact that you don't hit on all of them (Bennett) doesn't disprove the value of those picks.
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A few weeks after crashing head-first into the boards (denting his helmet and being unable to move for a little while) following a hit from behind by Bob Errey, the Calgary Flames player explains:
"I was like Christ, lying on my back, with my arms outstretched, crucified"
-- Frank Musil - Early January 1994
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