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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...
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Of course, but I don't think that is the issue. The real issue is that the line will ALWAYS be arbitrary and artificial, and will fail to reflect the true long-term health of any organisation by the hard distinction between "prospect" and "player." The dynamics of development are too fluid for that, thus ranking all 31 teams's "prospects" or "systems" is essentially a meaningless exercise that does not tell us anything of value.