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Originally Posted by TheScorpion
It's disingenuous to say that prospects passed Wotherspoon on the depth chart last season because in reality he was Stockton's best defender for most of the year. It was in previous years that his stock has fallen and he couldn't recover in time
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Disingenuous? No. Wotherspoon may have been Stockton's best defenceman last year, but he appeared to have stalled in his development or even reached his ceiling. He just wasn't showing that he was more than a tweener. Kylington and Andersson were improving rapidly, and Valimaki was not even in Stockton. By the end of the season, it's quite clear that Flames' management thought more highly of all three of those prospects than of Wotherspoon, and decided it was time to cut bait.
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