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Originally Posted by MJM
When they drafted this guy, the Flames pimped him out as a top line player that had big upside. The guy is, at most, a third line/4th line. They put unrealistic expectations on the kid from the get go.
When you have to resort to pointing towards an unsigned overaged player in the OHL to defend our prospect pool, you might as well raise the white flag. There's a big difference between a 16/17 year old boy scoring 40-50 goals in the OHL, and a 21 year old man.
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Just want to point out Cameron's goal total and age for his OHL career.
Age: 16 Goals: 20
A: 17 G: 33
A: 18 G: 41
A: 19 G: 37 (81 points, First team all star)
A: 20 G: 53 (First team all star)
He's a decent player, a 3rd rounder in his draft year. No need to crap on the guy because the Kings have so many contracts. Pointing him out shouldn't be waving the white flag in regards to Calgary's prospects, rather an example of a good addition regardless of the manner of acquisition.
As for your doubts about Nemisz ever being an NHL player, fair enough. I just want to say that I disagree very much. I'm certainly not saying he's going to be a top six player, but if David Moss can be an every day player, Nemisz can easily surpass his accomplishments to date. I look to Bob Boughner saying with absolute confidence prior to the Mem Cup win that Nemisz will be a solid NHL player. I look to the many accounts, some by dedicated Spits followers on this board, that Nemisz has improved his skating immensely this year. I look at his adaptation in dropping from first line right wing to second line center in more of a shutdown capacity as willingness to do whatever it takes to help the team and work on important aspects of his game.
People can say all they want about him benefitting from playing on a loaded Spits team but I think its a little overboard to say that a player with 70 points in 51 games wouldn't be missed by his team. He helped make the Spits as good as they were.
I'm not saying by any means that Nemisz, or Calgary's forward prospects on the whole, are going to be of high quality. However I am more of an optimist than some and think that several will end up being quality NHL players, even though it may seem to some that at 18, 19, 20 years old, these players won't continue to get better.