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Originally Posted by Robbob
The one big difference between Calgary and Edmonton is their depth players were just putrid. I could see the Flames being bad enough to get the first pick this up and coming season, but with all the pieces slated to come over the next couple season I don't think multiple firsts is going to happen.
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I don't know if that is really true though.
Edmonton had their veterans like Penner, Horcoff, Gilbert, Hemsky, Souray, Whitney, etc. Are the Flames any deeper with guys like Cammalleri, Hudler, Stempniak, Glencross, Wideman, and Giordano?
We have our Backlunds, Baertschis, and Brodies. But they had their Gagners, Coglianos, and Smids.
We are excited about our prospects. But they had just as many prospects to be excited about and were singing the praise of Eberle, Brule, Gagner, Plante, Nash, Paajarvi, Omark, Petry, Pechham, etc.
There are certainly differences between the two rebuilds. But we are in a remarkably similar circumstance as Edmonton was going into the 09/10 season.
Every fan base has rose colored glasses about their prospects. Vancouver has one of the worst prospect pools in the NHL right now. But go over there and half of their fan base is convinced that the future us rosy because they picked up Horvat and Shinkaruk.
The Flames have a strong prospect pool (that sounds weird to say). But we still have a long ways to go to rebuild a successful hockey club. I don't think it is something we turn around in a season.