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Originally Posted by Sandman
Yeah, it’s similar to the Boltmann pick- if you want to take a chance on a longshot, that’s great, but do it in the later rounds. I’m pretty sure Boltmann would have been available later, and the same could be said about Hoskin. Now, of course we don’t know how a prospect will develop, but here’s a few names we missed out on in order to draft Hoskin:
-C Heikki Ruohonen
-D Luke Osburn
-LW Kevin He
-C Tomas Mrsic
-LW Blake Montgomery
-C Raoul Boilard
-D Aron Kiviharju
-C Riley Patterson
-RW Hagen Burrows
-C Simon Zether
-D Colton Roberts
-LW Clarke Caswell
-D Nate Misskey
-C Marcus Loponen
-LW Noah Powell
-RW Justin Poirier
-RW Anthony Romani
-LW Charlie Forslund
-C Petr Sikora
-C Kaden Pitre
-D Tory Pitner
-C Kieron Walton
-C Lucas Van Vliet
-D Jakub Fibigr
-C Christian Humphreys
Of course I’m not a pro scout, but I would’ve been excited to get any of the above players over Hoskin. I really hope I’m wrong and Hoskin makes it to the NHL.
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Boltmann was a weird pick in the 3rd. But the 4th is a pretty good area to start taking flyers on upside guys a team’s area scout likes and has seen a lot (and the Flames seem to get a lot of good value out of the fourth round of the drafts). I think there was a comment somewhere that the Flames said they had exhausted their main ranking list around here and went to area scouts, so you either take a guy a scout has watched a lot and talked to a bunch of personnel who have coached the player or the team takes a consensus guy that they may not know a lot about.
Interestingly, the Luke Misa pick sounds like it could have been the later—that maybe the flames hadn’t spent a ton of time scouting him but then took a flyer on him because he had fallen so far. I’m parsing pretty heavily, but button in his post draft interview had specific comments about the skill or reason for taking every other player, but about Misa only said they felt like they had to take him at 150.