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Originally Posted by TheChief
I'm late to the party here and I'm sure someone has already reiterated but the troubling part is that I'm not sure if our scouts do enough background on our picks. Dube/Porier/Ronni/Howse/Stoll/Fox/Erixon/Valimaki/Kylington unfortunately all struggled with personal and or character issues which in some cases completely hindered them becoming a regular.
I guess on the flip side im sure we are not the only organization prone to this but I felt we had more then normal over the years.
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This is a terrible take for a lot of reasons.
First - it lacks a complete understanding that mental illness issues can impact anyone, and they are very hard to predict. Suggesting the Flames could have somehow identified it is naive.
Second - let's isolate some of the specific names:
- You seem to be categorizing Fox, Erixon and Stoll all as having character issues, instead of acknowledging they leveraged their situations to get what they wanted. Two of them went on to damn good careers.
- Howse had amazing hands but was an awful skater, with a poor all around game. Exactly the type of player you get in the middle rounds.
- I'm not aware of any "character issues" that Valimaki has or had unless you are somehow counting a horrible knee injury as a character issue.
Third - I hate how some seem to want to assign blame for what happened with Dube and Ronni. The accountability rests with those people for their actions.