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Originally Posted by The Cobra
All teams missed Stankoven, it's just that Dallas didn't make that mistake twice.
Calgary has drafted quite well, but every team misses, it's not an exact science.
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I think the Flames have drafted about average and that's not a slight as it's better than a lot of teams and a lot of teams ahead of them have been drafting in the top 10 regularly. The organization has a lot of good prospects but no blue chip prospects and a lot of that has to do with drafting in the teens and twenties as well as far too many picks traded by the previous GM. That said teams like Dallas have been able to draft blue chip players with later 1s round and 2nd round. Maybe they are the exception but if a team isn't going to commit to a proper rebuild, then their scouting needs to be amongst the tops in the league and I'm not sure the Flames are there.