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Originally Posted by Enoch Root
I didn't include Baertschi because he played NHL games prior to 6 years ago. You could argue that he didn't actually graduate until the time period in question, but you have to pick some guidelines and stick with them.
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So we're not saying it's the 2012-2018 draft period, it's just players that have made a full time roster spot over that span?
The list comparables look even uglier.
St. Louis:
Bishop
Bera
Lehtera
Allen
Edmundson
Tarasenko
Schwartz
Carrier
Fabbri
Barbashev
Dunn
Thompson (resulted in O'Reilly)
Thomas
Parayko
Blais
Schmaltz
Lindbohm
Carolina:
Doumoulin
Andersen
Rask
Svechnikov
Hanifin
Aho
Fleury
Foegele
Wallmark
Lindholm
Pesce
Di Giuseppe?
McGinn
Slavin
Washington:
Kuznetsov
Grubauer
Holtby?
Vrana
Burakovsky
Bowey
Sanford
Forsberg
Wilson
Stephenson
Djoos
Carrick
Bruins:
Hamilton
Spooner
McAvoy
DeBrusk
Carlo
Pastrnak
Donato
Heinen
Bjork
Subban
Grzelcyk
Benning
Forsbacka-Karlsson
Calgary:
Gaudreau
Monahan
Ferland
Tkachuk
Bennett
Jankowski
Mangiapane
Dube
Hathaway
Valimaki
Andersson
Kylington
Kulak
Rittich
Granlund
Brassoit
Aside from the Hurricanes you could argue 3 of these teams have been going for it the majority of the last decade, with Washington and the Bruins being contenders for the last decade often pushing in chips to put them over the top.
The point I am making is that yes it's no surprise the flames have a bad prospect ranking pool because they have spent so many futures like draft picks and a prospect like Fox. However, unlike teams that have been contenders, Calgary has just 5 playoff wins since Tre took over the team. Which means Calgary has been spending futures like a contending team does, but is doing it just to make the playoffs.
As good as the drafting has been for the last 5 years, it's not enough to make up for a deficit of picks.
Graduating kulak onto the roster is great. Losing him for basically nothing sort of negates that. It's the basis for Wilson's article about miscalculating on Kulak and it's one of the points of Pronman's ranking.
You can't out-draft not having picks. In 2018 Washington won the cup and then drafted 4 times in the first 3 rounds of the draft. In 2018 the Flames missed the playoffs and made 0 picks in the first 3 rounds of the draft. A year after, the Caps made just 4 total picks in the draft, but picked 3 times in the first 3 rounds. The Flames made only one more pick than Washington despite the Capitals having just won the cup, and only picked twice in the first 3 rounds.
To be true contenders, the bleeding has to stop.