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Originally Posted by EastCoastFlamesFan
Still can't get over how Ranheim never really panned out for us as the goal scorer he was touted to be. I think he put up around 60 goals that year for SLC. I seem to remember someone on here saying that he got hurt in the 91 season and never really regained his confidence and really became a PK guy the rest of his career.
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I think what it shows us in part- in retrospect- is how dominant Theo was
for many of us at the time- and we see it a bit in these news clippings- we had these 2 guys tearing up the IHL, both young- one was the scorer and one was the playmaker. Heck Ranheim was the first to be called up- I remember assuming they were equivalent prospects (even if Theo was already more famous due to world juniors etc)
but looking back the age difference of 20 and 22 is actually important. Ranheim hadn't even led his college team in scoring as a senior. Ranheim was a very good prospect (and he was- 1000 NHL games played is incredible), Fleury was a special/rare prospect and drove much of the success (along with the older guys like Chernomaz who was more of a minor league veteran)