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Originally Posted by blankall
Dube was a second round pick and further ahead in his development. He was also the last forward prospect to jump up full time and did so in 2018/19. That team was full of depth guys the Flames had drafted, Hathaway, Jankowski, Bennett, Valimaki, Monahan, Tkachuk, Gaudreau, Andersson, Mangiapane, Dube, etc... Were all recent draft picks at that point.
After that season, the Flames started giving their prospects more development time... Then no NHL time at all. Maybe they were worried they'd screwed up Bennett and Jankowski by not giving them enough time in the AHL? But they obviously went way to far the other way.
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It's was more than a change in player development policy, it was a change in draft policy. The after they picked Phillips, they traded away two 1sts, Four 2nds, and Three 3rds.
it cleared out the amount of prospects competing for spots. At the same time it made otherwise average prospects the best prospect in the system.
This is part of the reason folks were excited about Phillips, for a while he has been the brightest offensive prospect on the team ( before Coronato).