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Originally Posted by Mr.Coffee
Are those prospects still with the Flames, or other teams?
If other teams, doesn’t that add to my point? To reiterate my point is not that the drafting is poor, the development seems borderline horrendous. Happy to be proven wrong though.
It’s been slightly interesting this off-season because this is the first I haven’t seen tryout contracts or plug contracts signed yet to squeak out rookies or young players. But the off-season isn’t over yet and I expect a ridiculous amount of competition that no young player will be able to overcome.
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Only Adam Fox is with another team.
But it's the same story with every NHL team. Every fanbase thinks their team sucks at drafting and developing, as well as leaving spots open for the youngsters, but the Flames have actually done quite well as annoying as signing 4th line plugs seems every offseason.
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Originally Posted by Ped
Not true.
From 2015-2017, the Flames have 8 draft picks to play at least 1 NHL game, for a total of 1,160 games.
7 of those players can be considered graduated, imo, with only Ruzicka not really there yet.
8 out of 19 is 42 percent, which is pretty good.
On the other hand, Boston has had 15 players play in the NHL, for a total of 2,244 games..As for guys who can be considered graduated, the numbers are a little hard to put a hard number on, because they have a few guys that say, spent last year on the roster but haven't played a ton of games yet; guys like Zboril and Vladar and Swayman, etc.
Boston had 22 picks, and 15 out of 22 is an astounding 68 percent.
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Boston is at 1,199 games. I'm assuming you counted their 2014 draft as well.
From the 2015-17 drafts, 6 out of the Flames' 19 draft picks have played the equivalent of a full NHL season, whereas only 4 of the Bruins' 22 picks have achieved that feat so far.
I'm not arguing the Flames' draft haul is more impressive in that time frame. I'm just pointing out that they've been more than willing to give their picks a chance to make the NHL, and put them in good roles.