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Originally Posted by Jason14h
#5 is Calgary for the past 20 years!
Develop no one and always thinking we have good/great prospects on the way!
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Actually, looking at the pool as a whole, I think we are largely an exception. We've always convinced ourselves we had that one great prospect that usually busted (Baertschi) or didn't meet expectations at first (Backlund) but became a really solid non-superstar piece (also Backlund), but I've often found that Flames fans have dumped on our own prospect pool overall far more than we've allowed ourselves to believe it is deep. Two decades of drafting failures makes it very hard to convince oneself that we've ever really had much depth.