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Originally Posted by gvitaly
Lol, if I remember correctly... 2015... which was traded for D. Hamilton.
Going off memory, so I cold be wrong:
We did have a couple of 16th picks in Valimaki, and Honzek recently.
I think we also traded a couple 14th in the last decade(okay a bit more) in the Hamonic trade, and to move down so we could get Jankowski.
A couple of 13th as well in Baertschi, and Coronato.
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You're close. Coronato was 13th OA, but was actually the 12th guy picked due to Arizona forfeiting their pick. The pick lost in the ill fated Hamonic deal was 12th OA (Noah Dobson). Go way back and the Flames kept the 23 pick Tom Erixon and surrendered the 13 pick the following year in Gormley.
So hell yeah the Flames need to get better at drafting in the 13 to 18 range. Even getting two players who played 400 games with the team out of these picks would have made a difference.