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Originally Posted by Flame Of Liberty
According to Pens beat writer for the Tribune review Josh Yohe neither Hanowski nor Agostino were in Pens top ten prospect list. I know you will discredit that but frankly I don't care. I don't care much either because in grand scheme of things Hanowski will probably not matter much, but as I said, it raises a few flags for me at least.
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Is there really a point in arguing whether Hanowski or Agopstino were in Pens' top ten prospect list? Plain and simple, they weren't considered top prospects in Penguins' organization. Let's be real, there's no doubt in my mind that neither Hanowski nor Agostino were in the Pens' top 5 prospect list and it wouldn't surprise me if they weren't considered in Pens' top ten by Pens fans.
Obviously it is all subjective and it depends on whom you considered a prospect and whom you considered to have graduated, but at the start of the season there's no doubt that Despres, Bennett, Morrow, Pouliot, and Maatta were ahead of Hanowski and Agostino. It would be utterly stupid to rank Hanowski and Agostino above those guys. In fact, if any of those 5 guys were a Flames prospect they would slot right in with Sven and Jankowski as the Flames' top 3 prospects.
After those five, I think a lot of people would rank Bortuzzo, Dumoulin, and Harrington ahead of Hanowski and Agostino and I personally would rank it that way.
The reality is that Hanowski and Agostino aren't considered blue chip or great prospects and the Penguins had some serious prospect depth at the start of the year.