photo via stansteadcollege.com
The National Hockey League Entry Draft is an opportunity for teams to acquire elite talent at the cost of a free draft pick and if, as a team, you’re not trying to draft the best player in the draft in ten years, you’re doing it wrong.
Thankfully, we in Calgary can sleep at night knowing the Flames have a track record of seeking out just that.
In 2012, then-general manager Jay Feaster and his right hand man, John Weisbrod, outsmarted 29 other multi-million dollar National Hockey League scouting departments full of the best hockey evaluators on the planet, by selecting a player almost no one had every heard of (except for Craig Button), from a league no one had ever heard of, who would indubitably be the best player to come out of that draft, in 10 years time.