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Originally Posted by Parallex
Respectfully disagree. They both did very well playing in men's leagues last year but Gillies is three years younger then Ortio and has a significant physical advantage on him considering how much more of the net he fills out. He's got more upside then Ortio.
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I see both as having upside of good, not great (top 5/all star) NHL starters.
Ortio has shown that he can play at the AHL level and at worst is a decent NHL back-up.
Gillies has shown he is good in the regular season NCAA and struggled badly at the WJHC. Yes he has size but we have seen plenty of big guys not succeed recently (Dubnyk, Lindback) so I prefer to see him transfer those skills to pro hockey before giving him the benefit of the doubt for being big.