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Originally Posted by CorsiHockeyLeague
The criteria are pretty simple.
Graduating Valimaki and not Yamamoto makes perfect sense, in that Yamamoto is still trying to make the league and Valimaki, if he were healthy, would be "bet your house on it" levels of certainty to make the Flames' opening night roster. Dube is sort of in between those two, but as noted above, you have to draw the line somewhere, and just because there are individual cases where it doesn't work, doesn't mean it's a bad place to establish your threshold.
Also probably worth noting that Yamamoto vs. Dube isn't what's causing the Oilers to be 9th and the Flames to be 31st. Not graduating their first rounder last year and picking in the top 10 this year is what does it.
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He wasn't making that assumption though.
Valimaki and Dube just literally hit the line and therefore were graduated.
There are certainly prospects in Jersey and Manhattan that are sure fire as well but not getting graduated.
You can't blame him, he has a line to place somewhere, but in this case two Calgary prospects hit the exact elimination point on the button.