> “I’ll be honest with you, at the start of the year I was concerned with how deep the draft was,” Button admitted. “But, as usually happens, as the year goes on guys emerge that you may not have known about or they develop a little later.
> “You always know who the top guys are. We added a Russian scout, which we didn’t have. We relied a lot on European scouts or InStat video, but we added Denis Grebeshkov this year and he’s been tremendous for us and now we have a way more extensive list. We know more Russian players than I’d say we would have in the past.”
Chemical_Signal2753
The Flames only have 9 draft picks, which is 2 more than usual. The difficulty is that they have 2 in each of the first 4 rounds, which means they likely want to have multiple options throughout the early rounds of the draft.
drewby800
That explains why half our team is russian now…
DavyDogFr
Man I’m honestly so excited for the future, I have faith in all the scouting investments we’ve been making. I’m really hoping we can get a top 5 pick this season. Would absolutely love to add Lindstrom, a top line center is exactly what we need.
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Times are changing
> “I’ll be honest with you, at the start of the year I was concerned with how deep the draft was,” Button admitted. “But, as usually happens, as the year goes on guys emerge that you may not have known about or they develop a little later.
> “You always know who the top guys are. We added a Russian scout, which we didn’t have. We relied a lot on European scouts or InStat video, but we added Denis Grebeshkov this year and he’s been tremendous for us and now we have a way more extensive list. We know more Russian players than I’d say we would have in the past.”
The Flames only have 9 draft picks, which is 2 more than usual. The difficulty is that they have 2 in each of the first 4 rounds, which means they likely want to have multiple options throughout the early rounds of the draft.
That explains why half our team is russian now…
Man I’m honestly so excited for the future, I have faith in all the scouting investments we’ve been making. I’m really hoping we can get a top 5 pick this season. Would absolutely love to add Lindstrom, a top line center is exactly what we need.
Give me Demidov!