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Originally Posted by Rhettzky
I'm not sure you can dismiss college players so easily. The number of NHLers with a college background is increasing every year. And yes, lots of them are impact players.
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Historically the Flames have had a lot of success with NCAA players.
88-89 Stanley Cup champs had:
Joe Mullen (Boston College)
Joe Nieuwendyk (Cornell)
Gary Suter (Wisconsin)
Joel Otto (Bemidji)
Colin Patterson (Clarkson)
Add to that Brett Hull who we drafted from the NCAA & its obvious we had a lot of success drafting college players back then. Our very best team had a solid core of NCAA players to compliment the great CHLers & Europeans (Loob).
These days I'd say everyone would happily take a Toews, Sharp or a Quick or any of the other great NCAA players above some of the dud CHL players we drafted.