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View Poll Results: Best prospect from the following list?
Bruce 0 0%
Carroll 2 0.77%
Culkin 7 2.70%
Dube 30 11.58%
Falkovsky 0 0%
Fox 75 28.96%
Hamilton 1 0.39%
Harrison 0 0%
Hathaway 27 10.42%
Kanzig 1 0.39%
Karnaukhov 0 0%
Lindstrom 0 0%
Mattson 0 0%
Morrison 2 0.77%
Ollas Mattsson 10 3.86%
Phillips 2 0.77%
Pollock 53 20.46%
Rafikov 0 0%
Rittich 0 0%
Schneider 0 0%
Smith 3 1.16%
Tuulola 46 17.76%
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Old 07-27-2016, 03:29 PM   #41
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Am I the only one bothered by the fact that fans have chosen three goalies in the Flames top 15 prospects? That suggests to me that the scouts need to do a better job finding decent skaters.

Has been Fox for me since round 10.
Goalie is the position most able to individually swing a period/game/season/series. If you have a guy with upside to be better than replacement level, which each of McDonald, Parsons, and Gillies have, they should definitely be some of your most valuable prospects.

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Old 07-27-2016, 03:40 PM   #42
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Am I the only one bothered by the fact that fans have chosen three goalies in the Flames top 15 prospects? That suggests to me that the scouts need to do a better job finding decent skaters.
There is nothing bothering about it in the slightest, I don't have the vocabulary to describe how little one should make note of this.
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There is nothing bothering about it in the slightest, I don't have the vocabulary to describe how little one should make note of this.
I must be a lot older than most of you guys. I have seen many goalies drafted by the Flames, and none of them progress with the team to become a bonified career #1. At least not since Vernon, and he was a late-round fluke that only got a shot because Marc D'Amour suffered from chronic dehydration.
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3 Year CP prospect ranking comparison.
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets...brQ/edit#gid=0

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I'd be concerned if we didn't have a few goalies in our top 15/20.
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I must be a lot older than most of you guys. I have seen many goalies drafted by the Flames, and none of them progress with the team to become a bonified career #1. At least not since Vernon, and he was a late-round fluke that only got a shot because Marc D'Amour suffered from chronic dehydration.
So the past is doomed to endlessly repeat? Nope, that's a fantasy concept. In reality the fact we've developed few starters means nothing in regards to whether we will be able to develop starters in the future.
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I must be a lot older than most of you guys. I have seen many goalies drafted by the Flames, and none of them progress with the team to become a bonified career #1. At least not since Vernon, and he was a late-round fluke that only got a shot because Marc D'Amour suffered from chronic dehydration.
So because we've had crappy drafting success with goalies in the past, it's a bad thing that we have 3 goalies in the top 15 prospect list?

Should Edmonton draft less defensemen because they haven't had any success with them in the past?
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If anything, we're overdue to have a drafted goalie work out for us, even if just by dumb luck.
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So because we've had crappy drafting success with goalies in the past, it's a bad thing that we have 3 goalies in the top 15 prospect list?

Should Edmonton draft less defensemen because they haven't had any success with them in the past
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So because we've had crappy drafting success with goalies in the past, it's a bad thing that we have 3 goalies in the top 15 prospect list?

Should Edmonton draft less defensemen because they haven't had any success with them in the past?
I haven't done the math, but I bet about half the starters in the league were acquired by some other means besides the draft. I'm personally pretty excited about our goalie this year... I wonder if Elliott was ever on some team's top-15 prospect list?

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