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Originally Posted by Hackey
Other than Fox and Andersson the Flames haven't really found any impact players in the last 10 years outside of their top 10 picks. Their drafting has been decent but definitely nothing special. Hopefully some higher picks and a surplus of picks is going to improve those numbers.
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First of all, if you are looking at only the last 10 years you are cutting off 3-4 years where hardly any teams have players with significant NHL minutes. The 2021 draft has 7 players with more than 80 games. Only 3 were not top 10, and two of those I bet you couldn't name as ".impact players"
2020 - Connor Zary ring a bell? He's 24th in points from that draft (exactly where he was picked but he will pass that very soon I bet). 2019 - Pelletier - we will see. He's an NHLer anyway. 2018 - I'd say Pospisil has made an impact. Wolf may yet as well. 2017 - Valimaki is an NHL player. 2016 - Dube and Fox but what can you do?