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Originally Posted by neo45
Criminally underrated compared to what? Almost every team has better. Those Russians you named don’t even get invites to the junior team camps so they clearly aren’t very highly regarded in their own countries in terms of “how good they are”. I think an objective look at our pool would put us in the 20-30 range amongst other franchises. As for root causes I think it comes down to:
- GM trading a lot of high picks for players that don’t work out
- Poor overseas scouting (when was our last good pick out of Europe?)
- Best pick of the last 5 years didn’t want to sign unfortunately
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Fans tend to overrate prospects
Phillips has been in the system for 5 yrs and they don’t even give him a sniff
His next stop is more the waiver wire than the regular lineup