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Originally Posted by New Era
Naming Parsons as top prospect is a weak. A goaltender who hasn't played a single game as a professional is not a great prospect. The road to the NHL is littered with great junior goaltenders who #### the bed in the pros. To suggest a junior goaltender is the best the Flames have to offer is extremely lazy reporting. I can't imagine anyone in the Flames organization suggesting as much, simply because you never know what a goaltender has until he performs at each level. If someone in the Flames org suggested this, that speaks volumes to the level of prospects in the Flames system, and it ain't good. Parsons isn't even the best goaltender in the Flames system, let alone best prospect. I guarantee you, ask around the league of what prospects other teams covet, and Parsons barely makes top 10.
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Disagree and I think the Flames themselves and other experts would strongly disagree with you.
http://www.tsn.ca/test1-1.677389
Craig Button has Parsons as the 12th best prospect outside the NHL. Basically considers him a top 10 talent in a redraft. Personally I think Jankowski/Parsons are extremely close but Parsons is an elite talent no question.
Sorry but it seems your opinion on Parsons is the outlier here not Aaron Vickers. It's not lazy reporting, that's a lazy, uninformed analysis by you actually.