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Originally Posted by Cheese
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The Flames thought they had a Hallmark made for TV movie. The real prospect gets injured, the grizzled scout that hates the world is forced to drive through the snow storm that all the other scouts chickened out and opted to hang around Tim Hortons swapping lies, and the unknown kid in off the Farm throws a perfect game with 110 mph fastball.... (had to use a baseball analogy because Highschool hockey has a lot of 5-6 goal scores if mercy rules are not evoked).
Then they could have been humble say they were worried that he might be drafted by accident before the 2nd round after he showed up to the draft like he was a legit 1st round pick and was hanging around.
Instead they spiked the ball!! Not in the endzone or anywhere near the endzone, 4 years away from the goal-line.
Woo Hoo look at us!! we are so much smarter than the rest of these dumbass scouts and staff. They should all be embarrassed and likely fired.
PS. The sad part is that he exceeded expectations of everyone who had him as a 3rd round longshot prospect. He was a great AHL player and a solid NHL rookie and Made 5M USD in the NHL.
Somehow the Flames coaches wiped out his potential (enjoyment of hockey?) and left him done at 26.