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Originally Posted by Jiri Hrdina
I’ve always qualified that it was according to a recent study. I never stated it as fact absent that qualification.
Happy to read other articles that present a different view but a straight prospect rating doesn’t normalize for quality or quantity of picks
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But even the article you like to use shows the Flames are terrible at 1st round drafting (26) and average at 2nd round
Almost the entirety of the “gain” is from 2 players - MT and Fox
When MT fell to 6th every team in the NHL was picking him 6th - so I don’t give any “credit” for that pick . And like I’ve said about Fox - and even the article as well - do you really give full credit for drafting a guy who fell because teams knew picking him is probably throwing away an asset, and never played a game for your franchise ……
They actually were below expected “value” most years . They just crushed MT and Fox and that skews the data hugely .
Remove Fox and they are somewhere in the middle / bottom middle