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Originally Posted by FlamesAddiction
When you lookk at that 2019 draft where Pelletier was taken, it's really hit and miss. A lot more missed actually. Only a couple of the next dozen or so players taken after him have solidiified themseleves as NHL players at this point.
It's the life of many late first rounders.
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Exactly, they take a few years to develop into prospects and every team has a few of them in the exact same boat right now. Late first round picks who aren't good enough to make the NHL team at the current time. The question for other teams would be if they think that Pelletier is better than those players because they would have to keep him on the NHL roster if they wanted to keep him... and if Pelletier isn't good enough to make the Flames
I don't think his odds of being picked up by another team are all that great.
Hell look at the Canucks from that draft year, they traded Podkolzin for a fourth round draft pick and while he doesn't have the offensive potential that Pelletier has, he is a much bigger body who can play the bottom two lines.