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Originally Posted by Phanuthier
John Ramage - did he show no progress this year? kind of surprised everyone is writing him off to saying outright releasing him.
Sieloff - I know a lot of people preface that he is a year behind in development, but he's only 20 years old...
I kind of find it hard to predict D until they are already good... personally the only guy I think anyone can really say much, unless they actually watch AHL games, is Wotherspoon from his short stint in Calgary last year. Which was very good IMO.
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It isn't looking good for Pat Sieloff. Comments from management in preseason implied they were going to experiment with Sieloff as a forward because, at 6’, he wasn't a big enough body to play the game he wants to play. Now late in the season Huska is playing Sieloff as a winger. It doesn't bode well for his future with the Flames. How many freakin' LWers do we have on the cards already?
To me he needed to play lots of minutes on D this year to make up for missing last year entirely. Perhaps he would have been better served by spending the year in the ECHL than by being a healthy scratch in the AHL. Hopefully he plays well enough next year to play a full season in the AHL.
As you say, he's only 20 and could conceivably become a decent defenceman for us in 4 or 5 years time. Or maybe he's the next Lance Bouma? Do our management have the kind of patience needed to devote a contract to this guy if they're not even sure what position they want him to play? A lot of questions surrounding him and I don't think it bodes well that he's been leapfrogged by a half-dozen other defence prospects in the system and that we're going into the 2015 draft with 6 picks in the first 3 rounds.
I like him, though, and hope he pulls through. He's got the right attitude to best the odds. Next year is going be huge for him.