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Originally Posted by Flames1217
Some posters aren't considering the marketability side to drafting Tij.
Not only is the fan base pushing for him but I would imagine upper-management is pushing real hard. Iginla is face of this franchise and we will have two shots for drafting his kids.
The flames are a business and drafting Tij is great for business. At the end of the day this will be taken into consideration.
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I think you are greatly overestimating how much the average person cares about things like that. For the average person marketability begins and ends at winning and how cute the team's merch looks.
Average people usually have no idea who is playing for a team now, let alone who was playing for them in a previous era. They will go to games when a team is winning because cheering for the winner feels good. When they do learn players names, it happens because the winning brought them to watch the game exposing them to the announcer. And even then the names they learn tend to be based on names that sound neat, not player skill.