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Originally Posted by Street Pharmacist
Sounds about exactly what the vast majority here are saying. Why the negative diatribe then if we're all in agreement?
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Yeah his argument seems more suited to push back the masses that just voted the guy in as the best prospect ahead of Bennett.
He was 10th.
10th.
When the Flames make a deal with a team and a prospect is coming back (deal with Pittsburgh for Iginla) is the best example, I always go searching for prospect rankings to see what they grabbed.
If you're getting 3, 4 or 5 off their list you have a good player all other things being held equal.
I think Agostino was like 8th and Hanowski was like 12th on the Pittsburgh list according to the Gazette at the time of the deal.
When Calgary picked up Smid we had Horak and Brossoit at 11th and 17th.
Kylington came in 10th. That is not a huge impact prospect. Every guy past 5 has warts that they need to deal with.
McDonald is young, working on consistency
Klimchuk is good at all, but not great at anything
Smith is working on his skating
Andersson his conditioning
Kylington may need to adjust his attitude.
Will he? I don't know.
But to flipping out about a guy with that level of skating and skill being ranked is simply ... odd.