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Originally Posted by Street Pharmacist
Why does everyone who doesn't believe all these prospects are sure things suddenly become pessimists? Kind of irritating. What is wrong with questioning these ambiguous platitudes with statistics and insight? A pessimist would use the opposite of the optimists wishful thinking and base it on a negative view. Can't we be skeptical? What is wrong with questioning these? Why the hell should we ignore it when discussing our prospects?
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The first stone was thrown when someone threw out wishful thinking to knock down another poster. The whole negative or positive thing is so played out on this forum. It's the perfunctory way some posters go about it, thread-to-thread that some take issue with I'd imagine. This is a thread about the World Juniors camps and look what it's been dragged into.
I love bringing in stats to help evaluate a player, but I usually do it after viewing the guy myself. I put those stats into context. I don't base my evaluations solely on those stats, I use them after I've seen a player play and try to evaluate them myself.
The vast majority of NHL prospects won't be NHL players. Even if all these guys the Flames currently have are really good hockey players it's a numbers game. I just prefer actually watching them a bit, and atleast play a pre season game or two before totally writing them off. That's just me, I'm funny that way.