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Originally Posted by dissentowner
Lots of goalies start with starter potential. Few get there. Gillies is not even in my top 8, way too much unknown here. Look at a guy like Jack Campbell who looked like a slam dunk to become a starter. Or Dipietro. Or *insert a bunch of other goalies here* I think it is crazy to rank a goalie prospect that untested this high.
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Yeah but you can make that same argument about any other position, whether it's RW (ie, Yakupov, Jessiman), centres (Brule, Svitov), left wing (C.Gillies, Picard ) or defenseman (Ellerby, Valabik). All those positions have their fair share of busts.
Gillies was at one point a top 15 goalie prospect for 2 years. He even has exceptional pro numbers before his injury. It's also a very common and recoverable injury for goalies, and I've even heard it being a surgery to goalies as the shoulder surgery is to pitchers.