The way you fall in the rankings by graduating players is by graduating players at the same rate as every other NHL team but not graduating elite level players.
Maybe Valimaki is in that group this year, but he's not Cody Glass or Heiskenen or Carter Hart or Elias Pettersson etc etc.
Rasmus looks like he'll be a good solid player but he's not blowing the doors off the league, it just feels like it in Calgary because he's not Greg Nemisz.
It's really great that Dube looks like he'll be a player, maybe even a good one, but Sam Girard, Alex Debrincat have been in the league for 2 years. Other teams have players like Dube. Jordan Kyrou, Jesper Bratt, Joey Anderson, Sam Steel....
We just think it's remarkable because it's so rare in Calgary, but this is more or less business as usual around the league.
Calgary picks less than their peers though so it seems remarkable.
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