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Originally Posted by Hot_Flatus
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.
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Hard to guess at his weighting system but if he had Valimaki as a second pairing defenseman instead of lower roster I'm guessing the ranking bumps up a good 5-10 spots.