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Originally Posted by zukes
Fair enough I guess, but a couple things.
1) Who's to say the Flame prospect ever makes the NHL? There are plenty of successful junior tournament players who never make any impact, or never even make the NHL.
2) I know we're in a rebuild, but there is nothing saying that any prospect can't be traded before ever suiting up with the Flames?
What you can be sure of, is a few of the players on Team Canada will become stars in the NHL and become National Team players in future Olympics and World Cups.
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Nothing is guaranteed, and many of those who dominate this tournament go on to play zero games in the NHL.
But success in this tournament is generally a better indicator of a player's NHL capability than failure.