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Originally Posted by JiriHrdina
Most organizations have a very small set of true high end prospects and a long list of long shots and lower talent projects. If anything the Flames have more higher end talent in the system than they have had traditionally
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Top ten picks are special.
They come in and they graduate. They are the perfect storm of high potential and high likelihood.
Ideally a team's next tier has a handful of guys that could play in the upper half of your team but don't have the can't miss tag on them. If a team has say 1 of those players then there's a problem as I'm sure you need four of them to get one to reach that pinnacle.
The Flames have the one can't miss guy in Tkachuk.
But then I think they have a good 7 or so guys that could be top 4 dmen, a starting goaltender or a top six forward.
Gillies, Jankowski, Anderssen, Kylington, Hickey, Shinkaruk, Parsons, Dube, Fox, Poirier to name a few.
I think that's what makes the Calgary list better now than almost at any point that I've ever looked at it.
It's not scratching the bottom of the barrel where you have to put a guy with third line projection into your top five.