The draft has gotten much better under Teliving, and the Flames have managed to get a lot of diamonds in the rough in recent years.
We got Fox(3rd), Gaudreau(4th), Pospisil(4th), Kulak(4th), Ruzicka(4th), Ferland(5th), Mangiapane(6th), Wolf(7th), Solovyov(7th)
Peole don't realize that even 2nd round picks like Andersson, Dube, and Kylington have about a 10% chance of hitting.
Does it mean I like everything he's doing? No! I think we have had a big hole in our European and Russian scouting. The lack of Russians drafted was noticable for a long time. Also the whiffs on Ronni, and potentially Honzek seem significant.
Moreover, this organization absolutely sucked at picking goalies at the draft before Wolf(McDonald ahead of Demko anyone?)
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