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Old 01-29-2016, 11:15 PM   #836
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Originally Posted by Enoch Root View Post
There is usually little correlation between quality of prospects and quality of an AHL team.

The best teams are usually loaded with older, career AHLers that can be dominant against 20-22 year old prospects.

The biggest problems the Heat face are:

1) they are made up of mostly prospects, and
2) they haven't had great goaltending

I would rather they focus on developing prospects then focus on having a great AHL team.

Having said that, I am not entirely convinced that they are actually doing a good job developing prospects.
Fair point, although the Heat have some older prospects that have played a number of years in college.

Your last sentence is the kicker. The young players on the Flames making an impact have not gone through the AHL program except for Brodie. Until that starts to happen there is really no evidence to support that they are doing a good job of development.
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