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Originally Posted by Bingo
And Valimaki goes over based on the single playoff game adding to the 24 regular season games.
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When compiling a ranking like this you have to draw the lines somewhere. But I think this helps to illustrate precisely why ranking “farm systems” or prospect pools is so futile and meaningless in the first place. The ONLY reason the Flames fall where they do on this list is because they have two high-end players right on the cusp of the cutoff. In the end, there is no actual difference between players like Yamamoto and Dube, or Valimaki and Bouchard insofar as when their NHL impact is realized, and that is why these lists are such a farce. I have maintained that it doesn’t really matter that the Flames prospects rank so low this year, because the team is still very young: their most important players will still be high impact contributors when teams ranked in the top this list have graduated their prospects.
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