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Originally Posted by topfiverecords
Flames first round pick doesn’t pan out. News at 11.
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More like undersized late first round prospect. The Flames drafting has been exceptional in the past decade.
In the 2010s they drafted (players with over 200 games/goaltenders with over 100)
Ferland, Brossoit, Gaudreau, Baertschi, Granlund, Kulak, Jankowski, Monahan, Bennett, Mangiapane, Kylington, Andersson, Tkachuk, Dube, Fox, and Valimaki
Ruzicka, Pospisil, and Wolf aren't at that mark yet but they will be soon.
That is an exceptional job of drafting, especially when many of the picks have been out of the first round and the mid to late first round. If Pelletier doesn't play he will be the first "bust" type player in the first round since Erixon in 2009.
And this is coming from someone who is predominantly a Canucks fan - the Flames drafting has been really good, especially when you consider the team traded away a lot of draft picks for immediate help resulting in no first round pick in 3 years.