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Originally Posted by Caged Great

If I had to guess which two players I think are most likely to make it are Bouma and Wahl.

Originally Posted by Caged Great

The players he has drafted were players that filled out some organizational depth and now that we have a deep farm team, Sutter is more apt to take more skilled guys like Backlund Negrin, Nemisz, and Wahl.

Originally Posted by Caged Great

Oh I know, you need to be able to absorb a guy like Ryder disappearing into the ether, but the fact that we seem to have an abundance of guys that may become good NHL D-men, means that we can focus on drafting more guys like Nemisz, Wahl, and Backlund instead of needing to draft some D-men.

Originally Posted by Caged Great

2005, 2 players from it (keetley, Sutter), 4 more possible guys (Pelech, Baldwin, Watt, Lalande)
2006, 0 players thus far, 4 possible (Irving, Armstrong, Marvin, Carpentier)
2007, 1 player thus far (backlund), 2 more possible guys (Aulie, Negrin)
2008, too soon to tell, but Nemisz and Wahl look like locks to be NHLers....

Originally Posted by Caged Great

Players that Sutter has drafted that have top 2 line potential

Backlund, Nemisz, Wahl, Armstrong

Yeah, really hated those picks back then...

Pretty much Exhibit A on prospect homerism. No offence Caged Great because, as I said, I was in the same boat. But it's pretty much always the same. High potential prospects, until they bust, and then it's "well this is different, those past prospects weren't as good."

Originally Posted by moon

I am not sure what is worse the fact that they drafted Erixson or the fact that they had him in their top 10.

Doesn't say much about the Flames scouts.

Such a disappointing choice.

You listed 8 prospects with NHL potential (and another half dozen) and all but one of them busted.