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Originally Posted by curves2000
I agree with a lot of what you have said, I personally like the kid and see him as a decent 5-6 to start. He may not become an NHLer but let's stop wasting his time and everybody else's if he isn't and let's give the call up's to players who may benefit more, if Wotherspoon isn't one.
See what happen's but this season will be the inflection point where things go one way or another, hopefully in our favor for the sake of the team and the player. My take on this organizations lack of player development still stands though, Spooner or no Spooner. This goes back many years and doesn't appear to be getting any better.
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Pointing to Wotherspoon as a failure of development doesn't make a lot of sense to me. You may seen him as a descent 5-6 to start, but I can't imagine his potential is higher than that at
best. This is a prototypical tweener who might find himself a little career bouncing around teams on the bottom pairing, but that seems generous.
There is no question Calgary is seriously lacking homegrown talent compared to most contending teams. That alone has to make you question how far you can go. But I don't think it's primarily a development issue. Our drafting has been fairly awful for a fairly long time.
It's not that we have trouble graduating guys, it's that we have a horrible selection of whom to graduate (guys who aren't good or guys who really need to play more than 7th D/extra forward)
We lose a bit of dead weight over the summer and I fully expect Kulak, Hathaway, and possibly Jankowski to be on the team next year. Add Gillies and one of Kylington/Andersson/Fox/Poirier next year or the year after as well and things don't look so drab.
TL;DR Wotherspoon can't stick because he sucks.