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Tre says we won't take a goalie in the 1st round whereas Button and Conroy say this... interesting.
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Tre says we won't take a goalie in the 1st round whereas Button and Conroy say this... interesting.
I would be royally vexed if they waste a first rounder on a goalie. The Flames' amateur goalie scouting gives me no confidence.
And interesting that they say the trade market is quiet when so many other GM's say the opposite. Maybe it just means it's all quiet on the western front.
And interesting that they say the trade market is quiet when so many other GM's say the opposite. Maybe it just means it's all quiet on the western front.
InfinityIggy
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I am definitely on the 'you do not draft goalies in the 1st' train. That said, Knight looks like maybe the best goalie prospect since Vasi.
Might not be the worst dice roll in the world if the scouts look at who else is on the board at that point and don't see a guy they feel is worth taking inside the 1st?
Might not be the worst dice roll in the world if the scouts look at who else is on the board at that point and don't see a guy they feel is worth taking inside the 1st?
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I can't see how we can take a goalie in the 1st round after drafting McDonald and Parsons in the 2nd round so recently. I know that is likely a terrible way to think and you should just take the best player available but with the way goalies are hard to predict and the fact that they are basically an all or nothing pick, no 3rd line/pairing goalies, it seems like a bad use of assets.
Even a guy as highly regarded as Knight seems like a big risk at 26 for our team, If he fell I wonder what an offer for another team interested in him to move up would look like.
Even a guy as highly regarded as Knight seems like a big risk at 26 for our team, If he fell I wonder what an offer for another team interested in him to move up would look like.
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Good to know where to point the fingers if the Flames take Knight.
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If Knight is still on the board at #26, I'm fine with that pick, I don't suspect that he will be though.
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All the goalie talk from Tre and the scouts all leads to Spencer Knight and no one else. I don't think he will be available, but if he is still there at 26 I am 99% confident the Flames pick him.
I'd rather swing for the fences (if in the slim chance he's available) and draft a potential franchise goalie (in the words of Bob McKenzie) then hope for a 3rd liner/3rd pairing d-man with the 26th pick.
Though if Lavoie is still available I'd take a shot at him as well.
I'd rather swing for the fences (if in the slim chance he's available) and draft a potential franchise goalie (in the words of Bob McKenzie) then hope for a 3rd liner/3rd pairing d-man with the 26th pick.
Though if Lavoie is still available I'd take a shot at him as well.
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It's 26. Not like we're talking a top 15 or even 20 pick. There aren't surefire NHLer picks at that point. And if Knight is there at 26 you have to take the shot. Yeah, maybe it blows up and doesn't work. But I don't see how you don't take the dice roll there.
Because imagine if we didn't, and Knight becomes legit.
Because imagine if we didn't, and Knight becomes legit.
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I almost wish we didn't make the playoffs at all... as a reward for those godawful 5 games we get to pick over 10 spots later. 
So wait....it's take BPA, unless its a goalie?
If Knight is there take him! Man I'm still upset that Hart didn't fall 7 more spots in 2016 (instead of Parsons), and we took the wrong goalie in 2014 (Demko instead of McD). Both our goalies have had some great stretches and some brutal ones too....hope we can see more of the former this upcoming year.
If Knight is there take him! Man I'm still upset that Hart didn't fall 7 more spots in 2016 (instead of Parsons), and we took the wrong goalie in 2014 (Demko instead of McD). Both our goalies have had some great stretches and some brutal ones too....hope we can see more of the former this upcoming year.
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If Knight's on the board at 26, are we actually going to have people bitching?
The dude would be the BPA by about 10-15 spots.
Very much so, yes.
As Treliving himself said, the Flames' goalie developmental system is suspect. Even Button made fun of it. So unless Knight is essentially the second coming, I have no faith in the organization to develop him correctly. So yeah, no question, I'd much rather use the pick on anything else.
As Treliving himself said, the Flames' goalie developmental system is suspect. Even Button made fun of it. So unless Knight is essentially the second coming, I have no faith in the organization to develop him correctly. So yeah, no question, I'd much rather use the pick on anything else.
Plz no Beecher at that position.
Its exactly at this part of the draft round I want to go for homerun picks. Players that could've been in the top 15 but had flaws. I want something that has some elite part to it at the very least.
Safe is death.
Its exactly at this part of the draft round I want to go for homerun picks. Players that could've been in the top 15 but had flaws. I want something that has some elite part to it at the very least.
Safe is death.
Spencer Knight meets everything you asked for. If he is available at 26 i have no issues with taking him..
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