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Originally Posted by Flash Walken

I don't see that number being adopted. I see people agreeing, I see someone suggesting 41 games in a single season. I searched for this and see no set criteria established. Has this always been the criteria going back years? Did it change for this year?

I honestly don't recall, but while the 41-game mark is never explicitly spelled out in the discussion, it is abundantly clear from the content of the thread that it was adopted. I find it difficult to accept that you somehow failed to see that.

It would be neat if the moderation team didn't try to explain away conflicting opinions as being pissy and instead focused on the actual opinions and arguments.

You are the paragon of civil discourse. Of course you are always laser focussed on actual opinions and arguments.

So then make that argument, apply it to other teams and see what happens.

I don't need to, because I am sure that the Flames are not the only team being downgraded because of this. In the end, I don't really care because as pointed out previously, these rankings don't really mean much, and appear to have virtually no tangible impact on the team's overall health and longterm future.

Carve this post into stone tablets because it's the definitive post about why Calgary's prospect ranking is where it is

False. It's a key point, but certainly not the "definitive" one. There are several of reasons for this ranking—one of which is the Flames recent shortage of high draft picks; others being their trajectory within their competitive window, and the fact that the arbitrary cutoff of this list disqualifies some of their most important young players.

There were 40 guys who played between 25 and 41 games last year as rookies. Every team in the league is impacted by the 'arbitrary' cutoff.

Which does nothing to change the fact that the cutoff is arbitrary. Yes, it has to be, and that was never my complaint. My complaint is that it is artificial and misleading.

It seems to me the problem for many posters in this thread is not that the Flames rank 31st, but that the Oilers rank 9th. Who freakin' cares?

This is glorious, coming from you, since I don't see any other posters than yourself plugging drive-bys in other threads on the basis of this ranking as a means to propagandise his barely relevant point.