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Originally Posted by Vinny01
https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/508...shared_article
People with the Athletic may remember this article but it showed best drafting teams in the NHL since 2007. Dallas was #1 but Calgary was number 2 (Gaudreau, Fox, Brodie, Mangiapane, Kulak when this article was written you can add Wolf now) interesting that Calgary had the second FEWEST picks during this time frame.
Conroy said in his interview yesterday that he has always been heavily involved in the draft. This team is going to make more picks under him. It gives me some hope his plan has potential to pay off.
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The lack of picks has always been the Flames problem. Now they have more, if they hit on the same percentage that they hit on between 2010-2018 they should be fine.
Using 100 GP for goalies and 200 GP for forwards/Dmen the Flames hit on 17/56 picks (30%). They averagd 6.2 picks a draft during that time (less than the 7 alotted), they had 8 firsts (1 less than alotted), 9 2nds and 6 3rds (3 less than alloted).
So they hit at that high percentage without even the proper alotment of top 90 picks in the draft.
Last year they had 10 picks, including 6 in the top 90, this year they have 7 picks including 4 in the top 90 and next year they have 9 picks including 5 in the top 90. If they hit on 30% of those picks they will have 8 NHL players coming out of those 3 drafts, which will be a pretty good start for the rebuild. If they hit at a higher percentage all the better.