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Originally Posted by Jiri Hrdina
Part of the way to evaluate is looking at the teams sitting above them.
Right now those are:
17. Dallas
18. St. Louis
19. Winnipeg
20. LA
My assessment of each:
LA: Higher end talent at the top with Byfield (question marks though), Clarke, and Kaliyev. You probably still put the first two above any Flames prospect.
Winnipeg: Benefiting from Perfetti being inclusion. Odd prospect group to assess as they've got a couple real boom/bust guys, including Lambert.
St. Louis: Nice top 4 in Dvorsky, Snuggerud, Stenberg and Neighbours and some good depth down through 8 or 9.
Dallas: Benefiting from Wyatt Johnston still being in there. Stankoven/Harley are solid #2 and #3. Solid through the top 5.
I don't have much problem with any of those teams being above the Flames, but they are not significantly above. I think the Flames are basically firmly in the bottom part of the "middle tier" of teams that have solid but not spectacular prospect basis. In my head I would have guessed late teens, so this is not far off.
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that's fair, I wasn't really looking at the broader perspective of other lists, 21 just 'feels low' but probably depends on looking at who is included (meaning not considered graduated) and not in prospect lists- as you have pointed out