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Originally Posted by Delthefunky
I think Tod Button has done a great job here, and we'd be a much worse team without him. Maybe former GMs should have listened to him more, and given him some draft picks instead of trading them away for 4th line plugs. The Flames have had some absolute steals in the late rounds over the last decade or so.
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I don't think Button is bad nor do I pretend to know how responsible he's been for Flames picks. There's likely always some internal politics when it comes to high picks. I would like to hope picks like Hunter Smith and Keegan Kanzig (blatant mismanagement of 2nd round picks on large men that weren't good) were managment overruling scouts but we will never know. It seems like the team has not done well at all when picking for size over skill so there's still a lot of room for improvement IMO.