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Originally Posted by 1991 Canadian
There is definitely past results bias when it comes to these sort of players for me. The "bigger, defensse focused, that don't put up points" players haven't worked out en masse for the Flames. Kulak is the only notable "defensive" D that has eked out a career in recent years.
Fox. Andersson. Valimaki. Kylington. Brodie. The Flames drafted D that have worked out (to an extent) are the more average sized, point producing, more offense focused types.
Stepan Falkovsky. Keegan Kanzig. Riley Bruce. Tyler Wotherspoon. Patrick Sieloff. I'm missing a handful, but there is a long list of D first types in the prospect graveyard.
Would be great to see Phillips buck this trend.
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Flames have drafted a bunch of mid sized defencemen that haven't worked out either. Negrin, Erixon, Ramage, Gilmour, Culkin, Hickey. BTW, it doesn't look like Kylington or Valimaki will have a big career either. And they've a couple bigger guys who carved out careers that were missed: Pardy, Phaneuf.
What it looks like more is that the Flames haven't drafted well on D period.