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Originally Posted by cannon7
I don't think anyone on CP realistically thinks they know more than NHL scouts, aside from maybe the actual NHL scouts that lurk on CP. But if CP is expected to vote in line with where the Flames drafted their prospects then what's the point of these polls? It'd be a lot quicker to just sort all our prospects by the round in which they were drafted in, so Gillies has no business being ranked where he is because when the Flames drafted him there were other guys picked ahead of him.
My point is that this is an opinion poll, most Flames fans aren't on top of the development of every Flames prospect. So don't take things too seriously, we're all just guessing -- as if the Flames scouts aren't as well...
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Because there is a massive difference from comparing prospects from different draft years to comparing prospects from the same draft year.
A few weeks ago the Flames scouting staff decided that there were a huge pile of players they would take ahead of Tuulola. Nothing has changed since then except for one development camp.
Obviously ranking these players at this time next year will yield vastly different results. A year of development will do that.
Gillies is ranked high because of how he has developed since getting drafted