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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.
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Oh man. Go read threads about all our great players in Stockton and how if anyone of them are characterized as a 4th liner or 6th D, you would think we were talking about a superstar.
We can't even develop 4th liners and 6th D over the past 20 years!