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Originally Posted by DiracSpike
CPs irrational goalie love is encapsulated perfectly in 2015's prospect ranking: Gillies #3 and Ortio #5. 3 years later Ortio is playing for Skelleftea AIK and Gillies has barely shown anything in the NHL.
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Nothing irrational about it in my mind.
Goalies get touted but their development path is more up / down and out than skaters. Ortio had a pretty impressive stint with the Flames to conclude the 14/15 season so it made sense to think there was more to come.
Gillies won a college championship and was named to a World Junior team while coming off back to back to back 93% save percentage seasons.