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Originally Posted by Erick Estrada
When it comes to first round picks and the Flames anything outside of the lottery has been for the most part been a graveyard so the Hamonic trade for instance isn't so bad if the Flames pick ends up in the area of 20-30 seeing this team usually misses badly on those picks. That said regardless of how good your team is if you trade away too many picks it will come back to bite you in the end as you need continuous cycles of young talent displacing higher paid veteran players.
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I definitely agree with that. Although I haven't done my complete research on this, for the Calgary Flames: draft picks in the first 2 rounds (excluding top 10 picks) have had equal impact on this roster as draft picks made in the 3rd round and beyond.
Maybe with the amount of scouting, a 2nd round vs 4th round pick doesn't make too much of a difference. As long as you make a few picks each year.