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Originally Posted by GioforPM
The Flames amateur scouting has been pretty good. The last 3 rounds is pretty recent to be looking for home runs, since most guys outside the first round take more than that to get into the NHL.
Go back a better time frame and you have Andersson, Kylington, Mangiapane, Fox, Dube, Pospisil, Wolf. And you have guys that a lot of posters think should be NHLers - Solovyev, Kerins, Kuznetsov. And time will tell but I think they killed it the last couple drafts with late firsts and beyond.
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I would argue the Flames are the best team in the NHL at drafting outside the first 2 rounds. The only issue is it typically takes 5 years to be established.
2010: Ferland (5th)
2011: Gaudreau (4th), Brossoit (6th)
2012: Kulak (4th)
2015: Mangiapane (6th)
2016: Fox (3rd)
2018: Pospisil (4th)
2019: Wolf (7th)
2020: Kerins (6th), Soloyov (7th)
I can't think of another team that drafts this well in later rounds. This bodes well for the Flames if we are able to hit on some high draft picks and supplement them with later depth.
Lets hope Wyttenbach, Mews, Laing, Jamieson, Suniev, Misa, etc. can continue this trend!