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Originally Posted by Oling_Roachinen
Fair ranking at worst. Might even be a bit too nice to the Flames.
Every team fanbase gets a hardon for their prospects but the Flames really have an empty cupboard compared to the average team when looking strictly at prospects who have yet to make the team.
With that said, Gaudreau, Monahan, Tkachuk, Hanifin, Lindholm, has to be one of the best under 25 core players in the league.
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Have you considered where the cupboards were at four or five years ago? I have a hard time agreeing that there are 27 other teams with better pipelines than the Flames despite not having a bevy of elite talent coming out of the system right now.
The Flames, at worst, have a couple useful NHL players that can play each and every season coming out of the minor league system every year now and that's a win. I would also argue that Andersson, Valimaki, Parsons and Dube are much better than simply depth players as far as potential goes.