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Originally Posted by Bingo
Hindsight is a thing of course, and more recent prospects always seem to have upside until they don't.
But the Flames prospect list after the draft in 2013 (CP vote) was the following ...
Rank to Date
1. Monahan
2. Baertschi
3. Gaudreau
4. Gillies
5. Jankowski
6. Wotherspoon
7. Sieloff
8. Knight
9. Poirier
10.Klimchuck
Which to me says we didn't even know we had a Gaudreau at this point after the draft in 2013. He's 3rd, which says upside, but not 1st which says NHL star in the making.
Now last year's list
1. Wolf 65.3%
2. Coronato 73.5%
3. Honzek (run off, tied)
3. Pelletier (run off, tied)
5. Zary 50.4%
6. Poirier 49.1%
7. Morin 83.1%
8. Suniev 50.2%
9. Kuznetsov 32.0%
10. Stromgren 41.3%
That feels deeper (hindsight again), and it doesn't include this year's first and
Hunter Brzustewicz.
I think you could make the argument that the pool is deeper and better today than it was in July of 2013.
Two years later Gaudreau is a thing, but who's to say we don't see a pop from a player in the current top five.
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Gaudreau still had a lot of people using Nathan Gerbe as a comparison at the time.