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Originally Posted by Flames Draft Watcher
Okay. But based on him missing a year we still voted him our #3 prospect last summer. Now he actually plays, has a decent year but could potentially drop out of the top 6? That is bordering on him being massively underrated. His season wasn't a "disappointment" like is being parroted in this thread over and over. I'm not sure why people consider it such. My speculation was that Rittich's pleasantly surprising performance is making people think less of Gillies's season.
As for the on track vs behind, obviously missing a year sets him back in terms of timeline. I more meant it in the sense that his development is back on track now that he's healthy. I don't think Rittich being further ahead in his development right this second means Rittich is suddenly the better prospect longterm and I would caution that type of thinking.
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I'm on board with your comments in this thread except reading too much into relative placement year over year in these polls. It's not mutually exclusive that a prospect has a good development year but drops in the rankings because other prospects have fantastic seasons and leap ahead of them.
It might show some recency bias on the part of fans (and there's no doubt plenty of that to go around), but it doesn't necessarily show that fans are down on Gillies.
That said, I voted Gillies this round. Didn't vote last round but would have voted him ahead of Kylington too.