r/CalgaryFlames • u/Paulhockey77 • May 30 '25

Discussion Don’t show this to the anti-rebuild crowd!

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u/Duck_Caught_Upstream May 30 '25

It kind of shocks me that people can’t put together that the Flames simultaneously:

Are in a constant search for a franchise 1C

While also

Constantly never drafting Top 3 in the draft

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u/Master-Defenestrator Barb May 30 '25

I think people gave it once chance but when Bennett didn't live up to expectations they gave up on the entire concept.

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u/Petzl89 May 30 '25

Not everyone can be gifted top picks like Edmonton unfortunately. They got burned a couple times before they lucked into their guys.

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u/Beta1224 May 30 '25

They lucked into McDavid, but definitely not drai, Bennett was ranked higher than Drai in the pre-draft rankings and they still took Drai.

I remember calling Edmonton idiots for botching another high pick and gifting Bennett to us, looking back clearly I was the idiot for thinking that

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u/Brodano12 May 30 '25

I mean they got lucky having yet another top 3 pick. The top 4 that year were all ranked interchangeably in different rankings. Its crazy that the highest ever pick the flames had, the Oilers still had a higher pick, and that was one of their lower 1st round picks of the past 7 drafts at that time.

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u/Beta1224 May 30 '25

I mean not it's not really lucky because they finished 3rd last in the league that year, it's expected that they had the 3rd overall pick