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Originally Posted by Strange Brew
I would say there is little evidence the Flames have a successful player development model. There are very few younger players on the roster that have come though the "system" (Brodie, Ferland, Bouma, Jooris come to mind). But interestingly, none of those had 2 full seasons in the AHL which is basically where Poirier is now...
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That is fairly interesting. But I am curious about your claim regarding "very few younger players on the roster." Including Backlund, that's five NHL players on a 23-man roster. If you add Granlund—who I would put in the same bracket as Jooris and Ferland—that's 26% of the roster. Is that actually comparatively low from a league-wide perspective? How many "system graduates" does each NHL team boast? What is the average, and how do the Flames compare?
This is just an instinctive response, but it doesn't seem to me that 6/23 is all that out of the ordinary—and is certainly not to be characterised as "very few." I would guess that it is actually about average, or perhaps a little below average.