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Originally Posted by Jay Random
Yup. Incredibly unlikely to draft Fox in the 3rd round, Gaudreau in the 4th round, Wolf in the 7th, to get Giordano undrafted, and if you want to go way back Fleury in the 8th (which doesn't even exist anymore). That stuff never happens, especially to the Flames.
It seems silly to me to talk about the low probability of things that have already actually happened, particularly when one of those players is actually on the team right now and is the single most valuable player on the roster.
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None of those guys are the level of a MacKinnon, Crosby, Malkin, Ovechkin, Kane, Barkov, McDavid, Eichel, Matthews, etc.
And good as Gio was, he was not on the level of Makar, Hughes, Heiskanen, etc.
Yes it's possible (though very difficult) to get elite players outside of the top few selections of the draft. But the elite of the elite players are usually found at the top of the draft.