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Originally Posted by Da_Chief
And it's not like we're reaching here and putting some long shot prospects ahead of these guys.
4 of the top 10 are 1st round picks
2 of the top 10 are 2nd round picks
2 of the top 10 are 3rd round picks - One being Gillies, named top NCAA goalie
One being Hickey, invited to Team Canada
1 of the top 10 is a 5th rounder in Ferland, who destroyed an entire NHL team
1 of the top 10 is a 6th rounder in Ortio, who many believe is our future #1
Still leaves
Hunter smith - 2nd
Mason Macdonald - 2nd
Tyler Wotherspoon - 2nd
Rasmus Andersson - 2nd
Pat Seiloff - 2nd
Kenny Morrisson - Highly touted UFA dman
The top 15 is really stacked and this is not even taking guys like Agostino, Arnold, Rafikov, Kulak and Culkin who quite a few a really high on.
It's a total transformation. |
How many other teams will have a 2015 late 2nd round pick in their top 10 prospects?
I think that after having the worst prospects in the league for years Flames fans are over-reacting to getting back to a normal prospect pool.
A lot of the Flames prospects have NHL exposure ... because the Flames had such a weak NHL team. For a long stretch..... the Iginla (from 2004-2013) the team lineup was basically set by one-way NHL contracts. Remember Kennan playing best d-man prospect in the organization Ranbolt for 11 seconds? and that was his NHL career.
The AHL team was full of young prospects..... as are almost all AHL teams in today cap world. Our prospects that we are rating so highly finished comfortably out of the playoffs.
Calder cup winning roster had Manchester had 19 out of 27 with 1990 or later birthdays. Utica had 22 out of 31. The Flames were about the same with 11 older guys on their roster over the season.
The Flames have great prospects both Quality and Quantity compared to the Flame prospect pool of 5 years ago but last year I expected Adirondack to comfortably make the playoffs with all these great prospects that were really close to making the NHL.