JayzinSmith said:
JayzinSmith said:I'll put it on the list, but it'll be in brackets until it's revealed which exact pick it is. I knew he was traded for a pick, but I didn't have a round or even a year, so I had left it off the list till now.
I think it's a sign that the Draft is a complex system when it takes 6 sentences to explain 1 pick.Flames Draft Watcher said:Well I can tell you the story of why it was a conditional 3rd rounder in the Ference deal. The Flames had traded for Curtis Joseph's rights before he had signed in Detroit. As part of this deal they were going to ship the pick that ended up being a round lower than the compensation pick they'd get for losing Joseph back to Toronto. At the time of the Ference trade they still did not know where the Joseph compensation pick was so it was a conditional 3rd in 2003 or 2004.
Now closer to the draft we find out that the Joseph compensation pick was a 2nd rounder therefore we owed Toronto our 3rd rounder which pushed the Ference 3rd rounder to 2004.
So it's definitely a 2004 3rd rounder to Pitt and that's why.
JayzinSmith said:I think it's a sign that the Draft is a complex system when it takes 6 sentences to explain 1 pick.
Thanks, the list is fixed.