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Originally Posted by Aarongavey
If the Flames trade their UFA’s I really hope that Conroy is able to convince ownership to load up on picks and rely on our scouts to fill up the pipeline. I have much more faith in the Flames amateur scouting staff if they just have more picks to find players.
In the 2020 draft it appears that they found at least one (Zary) and potentially as high as 4 (Zary, kuznetsov, Poirier, solovyov) players who could play in the NHL out of 8 picks, majority of which were 3rd round or later.
In 2019 it appears they found Pelletier and Wolf (2 out of 5)
2018 it looks like Pospisil will be a player (1 out of 5 with all picks 4th round or later)
2017 looks like 2 out 5 (Valimaki and Ruzicka), all picks except one in 4th round or later
2016 - 3 out 9 (Tkachuk, Dube, Fox)
2015 - 3 out of 5 (Rasmus, Kylington, Mangiapane).
Just rely on the proven track record and let our scouts build this team. If they continue to hit at about a 33% rate and they somehow got 30 picks in the next 3 years that would be another 10 NHL players.
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Overall, I definitely trust in the Flames amateur scouting over their pro scouting