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Originally Posted by Caged Great

He was doing pretty good and has fallen off the face of the earth since then. It does occasionally happen, although not usually this dramatically. I had not watched a ton of him before the Flames signed him, so I was basing my evaluations mostly on the 7 or 8 times I saw him play in the A last year and then at the development camp.

He was jumping in the play quite a lot like Brodie and playing authoritatively at the end of last season. He was looking like he was at a level above Kulak, and right there with Hickey. Since then he has played more like Eric Roy than those other guys from the beginning of this year. It's like you're not even watching the same guy, that's how much worse he's playing.

Any time you're dealing with something abstract, randomness is part of the landscape. Typically players that do A, B, and C tend to go on and do D. Morrison did not follow that progression trend. It happens. He may still rebound, or he might fizzle out entirely. More information (games played) will be needed to see if he figures out whatever his problem was and if he's able to correct it.

If it was an exact science, the best players in every draft would get selected in order from 1 through 210. Most of what I try to do is see the underlying patterns to a players game and projecting forward based off other comps that I have watched that have the same elements in their game. Some times I am able to "Jooris" it, some times I "Morrison" it, although I am rarely as wrong as I was with him. Typically when I'm wrong it's thinking that a guy like Sieloff might be able to carve out a career as a Deryk Engelland #6/7 guy and he hasn't yet shown that he can elevate his game to even that level yet.

everybody has their misses