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Originally Posted by JiriHrdina
Or maybe we should acknowledge that as a fan base - we arent that great as ranking the prospects.
Based on this season Mason McDonald should rank above Ortio. But based on what we knew during the summer, there was a good case to rank Ortio where we did.
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I will say I've never been on the Ortio hype train. I've always believed at best he would be a placeholder for Gillies. He's had one AHL season where he looked to be better than average but outside of that his AHL numbers are pretty middling. Yeah he carries a Finnish passport I get that but at the end of the day one AHL season of a better than 0.920 SV% isn't nearly enough to convince me that he's a top prospect.
That said I was hoping that he would get a full opportunity to be the backup this season and then the team signed Ramo and things kind of snowballed to today and we are left with nothing but question marks all around in regards to the position. It's the self inflicted wounds that are the hardest to take and this was self inflicted by the Flames management team.