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Originally Posted by Stay Golden
For whatever reason the Flams brass just can't resist to go off the board every year at least twice.
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Except for Jankowski, last year was as "on the board" as you could get. Here are last year's picks, the first number is the player's final CSS NA skater ranking (in Gillies' case, his NA goalie ranking) and the second number is the player's actual NA skater (or goalie) position drafted.
- Jankowski 43/16
- Sieloff 31/32
- Gillies 6/4
- Kulak 55/83
- Culkin 66/96
- Gordon 61/125
- Deblouw 51/141
Jankowski is the only one who was picked significantly higher than his CSS ranking. Sieloff and Gillies pretty much went in the expected range, and the rest all fell significantly from where CSS had them ranked. According to the CSS rankings, they all should have been gone by the end of the third round (71 NA skaters picked in the first three rounds last year).
For the 2011 Draft, Gaudreau is really the only "off the board" pick that the Flames made, and right now that looks like a genius move. Baertschi (7 rank/10 pick NA skater), Granlund (9 rank/8 pick Euro skater), Wotherspoon (40 rank/42 pick NA skater), and Brossoit (7 rank/8 pick NA goalie) all went pretty close to their CSS rankings.
Given that Addesa's beat is the Northeastern US, and obviously includes off-the-radar prep schools, it's possible that he was the one who brought Jankowski to Button's attention last year and the Harrison pick was his "reward" for doing it.
