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View Poll Results: Best prospect from the following list?
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Austin Carroll
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17 |
11.64% |
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Zach Fischer
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15 |
10.27% |
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D'Artagnon Joly
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11 |
7.53% |
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Pavel Karnaukhov
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2.74% |
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Mitchell Mattson
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5.48% |
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Mason McDonald
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46 |
31.51% |
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Brett Pollock
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5 |
3.42% |
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Rushan Rafikov
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2 |
1.37% |
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Nick Schneider
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2 |
1.37% |
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Hunter Smith
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30 |
20.55% |
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Fililp Sveniingsson
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6 |
4.11% |
08-07-2017, 08:44 AM
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Owner
Join Date: Dec 2001
Location: Calgary
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Calgarypuck Prospect Ranking 2017 - Round 26
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08-07-2017, 08:46 AM
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Owner
Join Date: Dec 2001
Location: Calgary
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I'm going Mason McDonald. ... lots of bounce back stories in prospect projections, why not McDonald.
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08-07-2017, 08:48 AM
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Oct 2014
Location: Right behind you.
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BigRig again for me.
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08-07-2017, 08:55 AM
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#4
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Powerplay Quarterback
Join Date: Oct 2005
Location: Medicine Hat
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I don't know enough about any of the other guys, so my proximity bias gives the edge to Zach Fischer. He looked good this past season.
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08-07-2017, 09:16 AM
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#5
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Join Date: Jul 2010
Location: Calgary
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McDonald, goalies take a while
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08-07-2017, 09:38 AM
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Franchise Player
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Everybody but Rafikov with a vote already - love it
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08-07-2017, 09:40 AM
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Owner
Join Date: Dec 2001
Location: Calgary
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so ironic that it's a Mason McDonald vs Hunter Smith duel. Two 2nd round picks that haven't worked out as of yet in a sea of others that have.
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08-07-2017, 09:45 AM
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Feb 2013
Location: Boca Raton, FL
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Pretty much a pick-em at this point. I wouldn't argue with anyone's choice or justification for said choice. These last few are all long shots to be NHLers IMO, but there are probably some qualities that people prefer over others. It was down to Mattson, Joly, and Fischer. I went with the Fischer because he scored a point per game in the WHL this year (including playoffs), and he's got...um...truculence.  I'm hopeful that he can be a bottom 6 winger at some point in the future.
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08-07-2017, 10:34 AM
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First round-bust
Join Date: Feb 2015
Location: speculating about AHL players
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Between Carroll and Smith for me, but I went for Smith again. I like my truculent wingers.
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08-07-2017, 11:04 AM
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Dec 2011
Location: Calgary
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Round 26 seems too high for Hunter Smith. He should be in the 30's in my opinion. He's embarrassing.
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08-07-2017, 12:06 PM
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Ass Handler
Join Date: Feb 2011
Location: Okotoks, AB
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Might as well throw a dart at this point.
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08-07-2017, 12:16 PM
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#12
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Scoring Winger
Join Date: Jul 2017
Location: Lethbridge
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Fischer for me, he had a pretty impressive season. Nice combination skill and tons of grit
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08-07-2017, 12:20 PM
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#13
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Franchise Player
Join Date: May 2016
Location: ATCO Field, Section 201
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For perspective, Ferland was ranked 26th in the summer of 2013.
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08-07-2017, 12:27 PM
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#14
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#1 Goaltender
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I went with Zach Fischer. He seems to have that "guts of the game" quality that Treliving talked about with Tkachuk. He looked like he had an impressive amount of skill at the development camp too.
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08-07-2017, 01:13 PM
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Franchise Player
Join Date: May 2004
Location: Helsinki, Finland
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At this point I go with the goalie because you can never know with goalies, and that gives a goalie more upside than anyone else on the list.
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08-07-2017, 02:15 PM
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Dec 2003
Location: Sunshine Coast
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I was going to berate every other choice but I'll keep it positive with 6'3" Joly as my pick.
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"Halfway through the year, we weren't very sure of him," Flames director of amateur scouting Tod Button admitted. "But as the year went on and the playoffs went on, our scouts in Quebec - our three scouts - they really liked him and they really pushed for him."
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Joly is a hard-working winger with some offensive upside and physicality. Great acceleration and good top speed, though not the smoothest skater as he is still growing into his frame but he has an incredibly quick step. He can both play the physical dump and chase game or the finesse game dekeing his way around you with the combo of his speed and quick hands game. He can power his way to the net or stay to the outside creating an open space in the middle for a teammate, hitting them with a crisp pass.
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I like his upside.
https://www.nhl.com/flames/news/what...ly/c-290152384
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08-07-2017, 02:27 PM
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#17
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Franchise Player
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Karnaukhov and Rafikov are in a whole other tier skill-wise compared to the rest, though Smith would be my "most likely to play an NHL game" pick out of the group.
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08-07-2017, 02:37 PM
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Feb 2006
Location: Calgary, AB
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Quote:
Originally Posted by bigrangy
Karnaukhov and Rafikov are in a whole other tier skill-wise compared to the rest, though Smith would be my "most likely to play an NHL game" pick out of the group.
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They might be on another tier skill-wise, but unfortunately for the Flames, that tier appears to be in Russia.
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08-07-2017, 03:05 PM
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Mar 2009
Location: Calgary
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Quote:
Originally Posted by getbak
They might be on another tier skill-wise, but unfortunately for the Flames, that tier appears to be in Russia.
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Flames hold the rights to Russian players until they are 27.
Flames hold the rights to Adam Fox until he is 21.
There is risk of those guys never coming over, moreso because they might just not have the talent to be regular/impactful NHLers and it would be a poor career move for them, but there is risk of a guy like Adam Fox never signing for us, as was the case with Brandon Hickey.
I would prefer to rank the Russians based on what they could do at the NHL level someday, not where they have elected to develop. I don't really know what the answer to that is, since I haven't seen enough of either, but I don't think burying them in the rankings because they are in Russia is reasonable.
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08-07-2017, 03:12 PM
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#20
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Franchise Player
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I think rating prospects is a function of potential talent (ceiling), along with likelihood of actually making it and contributing.
Those guys have some talent - possibly more than some of the others now being voted ahead of them - but their likelihood of ever playing for the Flames is very low.
For me, that has to be factored in, and is why they are still on the list.
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