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Originally Posted by ricardodw
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.
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I'm sure lots of teams will have 2nd rounders in their top 10. For us most of our 2nds will be outside the top 10.
I'm not comparing our pool to other teams, I'm comparing it to what it used to be and how far its come.
Of course only some of these guys will become regulars for the Flames, it's just not statically possible for them to all have success at the NHL level with the Flames.