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Originally Posted by Where ru Chris O'Sullivan
In the case of Bennett, draft position, plus how he showed during training camp.
I would never call any prospect goalie part of the core
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So you would just blindly do trial and error with every goalie available until you stumble upon a solution? The Flames did that in the Young Gunz era, and it was disastrous.
Many teams draft and develop their own goalies, and it seems to work out well most of the time. What you don't want to do is use high draft picks on them because how they'll turn out is a bit of a crapshoot, but once they show capabilities at a certain level (i.e. Ortio's recent recall), you have to consider them part of the "future core" if you will. If you can consider Bennett a core piece, you would have to at least consider Ortio in the same vein. Gillies has been dominant in college, and while he still has to show something at the pro level, he's as blue chip a goalie prospect as you can get these days. So yes, he's a core piece IMO.
Top goalies who were drafted and developed by their current team:
Carey Price
Pekka Rinne
Henrik Lundqvist
Jonathan Quick
Corey Crawford
Jimmy Howard
Braden Holtby
M.A. Fleury
Further to the point, 7 of the 10 leaders in GAA this year were drafted and developed by their current team. At some point after their draft these players were prospects and simultaneously considered "core" pieces by their teams.