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Originally Posted by GioforPM
Most teams draft their top goalies and in fairness to the Flames, they've drafted consensus good goalie prospects. Gillies, Parsons, Macdonald, Irving, Krahn, Brossoit, all the way back to Kidd - they all were either highly thought of at the draft or highly thought of by the time they turned pro. They've also tried the Euro route (Ramo) and the high end backup route (Turek).
It's over a period of time that can't be explained by GM, scouting staff, goalie coaches or anything else.
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Just a quick correction. Turek was a starter in St.Louis when we acquired him. He had two full years as backup in Dallas, went to St.Louis and became their starter for two years. Was the starter in Calgary for two full years and then the 3rd year he got injured and when he came back Kipper had taken the starters job from him.