While I must congratulate the flames scouting staff on finding a great diamond in the rough in Patrick Holland who is ligting it up this year, I have to seriously question why they favoured bloodlines so much in last year's draft.
The Flames focused entirely on the WHL, which is going to come back and bit them hard. Buffalo looks to have found another great player in Steven Shipely a great young power forward who is a leader on a very young Niagra Ice Dogs squad and has goen from a Nemisz clone last year, to a big man with very good skating and explosiveness after a summer of hard work.
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