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Originally Posted by Macho0978
This is the way to go IMO. The Flames already have a ton of prospects to sort through as they have had extra picks and had a strong 2024 draft. There are only so many prime spots on the Wranglers, only so many spot in the top 6 on the Flames. We need top end talent, less depth. We are up picks in 2026 and have a bunch of prospects. Give them time to develop and have extra down the road. A team like Toronto is so thin on prospects and picks, at some point they could tank. I would wait for that and even if that pick is 15-20 OV, having time to sort through what we have now and move out vets over time will be beneficial for Conroy.
Kuznetsov is a prime example of a player playing very well but we had him on waivers a month ago and he could have been lost for nothing.
Zary's play will improve IMO as soon as we ship someone out and get him more ice.
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Another indication from a year ago (guessing) that the team is in a rebuild was Conroy on 960 talking to Steinberg about Iginla's involvement in the team and he said something like "yeah Iggy was asking, like how many picks is too many picks?"
The natural age gap between draft years spaces out your system for blue chip prospects to a large degree, but you can't draft 36 junior hockey players in three years and not have to make decisions that you might regret.