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Originally Posted by 868904
You sure went through a lot of trouble there to dig through old quotes trying to prove that Flames fans are hypocrites, but there really isn't any quote there that suggests that Flames fans though Horak was hot stuff before the trade and then sucked after. Most Flames fans thought Horak was an NHL depth guy and that's about it. Again as another poster noted, these two were the 11th and 17th ranked prospects by this board, and this was before the season started. Both probably dropped after the season started as other prospects passed them. So your suggestion that Flames fans are hypocrites is not right, well, at least not in this case ;p.
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Not much trouble at all.
All fan bases - the Flames, the Oilers, the Lightning, whatever - overrate their prosepects and that tends to stop as soon as the player leaves town.
I don't think anyone is a "hypocrite." Your word, not mine. My point was merely that it was interesting to see how a player goes from "he should be in the NHL" to "he is a career minor-leaguer" just because he's been traded.
This is not a Flames fan thing, this is a fan thing.