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Originally Posted by Jason14h
Not angry at all - just hearing Jiri make the same statement multiple time a week that the Flames are the 2nd best drafting team because of an article evaluating drafting players from 6-15 years ago that actually shows / states the Flames actually really suck at drafting in the first round and average in the 2nd, but hit in Adam Fox (a player who fell to his spot because teams knew he wouldn’t sign and didn’t want to waste a pick on him ) makes them “ a top drafting team “
They have drafted 1 superstar player in 30? years in MT who actually
Played for them and even that was 6th overall - higher then they will be drafting this year
But as long as the Athletic ranks us 2nd in value above replacement from 2010- 2018 and includes a player who never played and was never going to
Play for us I guess we have nothing to worry about !
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There's some real logical issues here. The Flames can be ranked as a very good drafting team without drafting a lot of superstars. Why? Because drafting performance has to be evaluated on your draft position.
Name a player better than Zary who was drafted after him? Or Pospisil? Or Wolf? Or even a guy like Ruzicka? Valimaki turned out to be a decent pick. Pelletier will be good. They took Andersson and Kylington out of the second round and both are great picks at that level. Mangiapane was a 6th rounder.