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Originally Posted by Oling_Roachinen
Max Reinhart was overshadowed by his four year younger brother during his last season in juniors. Ortio didn't play in juniors. Howse is a bit of a special case of what-could-have-been if his heart was into hockey, but even then no one projected him to be a star. Wotherspoon didn't have the offensive stats to project him to be much more than a depth defenseman in the NHL. Seiloff's one year in juniors was dismal due to injury. Certainly none of those guys were expected to be stars.
Poirier's the closest on that list of players that had an upper limit projection of that of a star, but as always dealing with prospects, that's a much bigger difference than being expected to be a star. So, yeah, a weird take on things.
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I am not going to spend too much time to search for all the threads but you can simply go back to threads created for each of these players and how many posters were high on these prospects. Maybe not "Star" (so I stand corrected) but definitely solid core players which is equivalent to a guy like Neal or Hamonic on today's team.
Rienhart was dominant in the playoffs when he carried his team and everyone thought he was going to be a special player... at this point, he was not overshadowed by his younger brother. (
https://forum.calgarypuck.com/showth...einhart&page=6)
Howse - Being compared to Getzlaf and Hull (
https://forum.calgarypuck.com/showth...t=howse&page=5)
Ortio - The next Kipper
https://forum.calgarypuck.com/showth...ighlight=ortio
Wotherspoon - Was ready to make the NHL team and be a solid contibutor
https://forum.calgarypuck.com/showth...erspoon&page=2
Sieloff Signing - Top 4 was what people were thinking
https://forum.calgarypuck.com/showth...sieloff&page=2
Everyone of these players had a First Name "Fricken" Last Name type of thread made for them.