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Originally Posted by looooob
possibly fair. I can't tell how their batting average in that regard compares to other teams. if you look at their ihdb draft page, there are several Center-ish or Center- adjacent picks (presumably part of that large group that always exists that played C either entirely or partially in Jr but were never destined to be NHL Cs- Dube, Granlund, Pospisil, Ruzicka and Kerins I suppose all listed as Cs- probably 3 of the 5 will hit 200 games
then there are the misses but I would guess most teams would have a list like this (and a few have asterisks of different types attached to them) Armstrong, Marvin, Carpentier (ok Flames were at a low point in drafting circa 2006 not gonna lie), Renaud (*), Nemisz (ugh), Grantham, Reinhart, Arnold, Lindstrom, Mattson, Joly, Roman, Petterson, Nikolaev, Francis, Ronni (*/ugh), Littler, Lipinski
ok that's an ugly lineup but less of them as time goes on and most of them are from the late round dregs
other than Ronni they haven't 'missed' (<200g) on a first or 2nd round C since Nemisz. they just haven't drafted enough of them, or drafted high enough. IMO anyways
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Let's face it all of Ruzicka, Dube, Granlund, and Pospisil played as wingers in the NHL save a couple games. So I really don't count them. Even Zary looks like he'll be a winger. Nemisz I don't recall even playing center in junior.
The number of players that the Flames drafted and got 200 games out of is pretty small. Mid pack and being no worse than the other guys is not going to cut it for this team when it comes to drafting. That said more picks are needed and specifically in rounds 2 and 3 to take a few more shots.