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Originally Posted by Five-hole
My guess is our failure rate from junior to pro is relatively consistent with the league average.
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Actually the Flames could only wish to be average. They are not even close. In quality and quantity.
990 players played at least one game in the NHL last season. 19 of them were developed by the Flames AHL affiliate. That's less than 2%.
Giordano, Backlund, Brodie, Granlund, Baertschi, Ferland, Jooris, Prust, Bouma, Nystrom, Wotherspoon, Seiloff, Ramage, Agostino, Kylington, Poirier, Kulak, McElhinney and Ortio. Only Giordano was in the top 100 in scoring and 6 or 7 of these guys likely will not be in the league this year.
To put that into perspective, 17 Hitmen alumni played in the league last year. So, if you are on the Hitmen, you are almost as likely to go into the NHL as a player in Stockton is. And you are more likely to be an impact player.
As for Pronmans 2016 prospect rankings it will be very interesting to have a look in 5 years. I like Nashville (10), Detroit (18) and San Jose (24). I know almost nothing about their prospects but I do know that those teams have a proven reputation for graduating players from their AHL team into the NHL. I'm really starting to think that if you exclude the really high end players, development is even more important than drafting.