sureLoss also said he heard the same thing, but that his source was not the same twitter account.
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Originally Posted by sureLoss
Take with a grain of salt as it comes from a guy that is not usually reliable, but hearing Agostino has signed with the Flames and may play against Buffalo on Tuesday.
Are there many random twitter accounts with 100 followers that make up random rumours about B level Flames prospects? Doesn't really make logical sense for someone to fabricate a story like this, IMO.
Hope the rumor is true. Out of all our NCAA prospects he was the only one I really questioned whether he would sign or not. Hasn't been in the Flames' system long, was a senior (so that much closer to going the free-agent route), and some rumblings about over-involved hockey dad.
I was really impressed with what I saw out of him in prospects camp. Great board work, good skating.
(assuming he signs) this is another prospect that is close to ready (i.e. not an 18 year old, raw prospect)
One of the reasons that rebuilds typically take at least 3-5 years is that it takes a long time for prospects to go from the draft to becoming contributing players. It simply takes a long time to fill the pipeline.
But somehow - amazingly - in the first year of the rebuild (and from a team that had empty cupboards very recently), they suddenly have a fairly large number of relatively mature prospects.
Under 25 players on the team:
Backlund, Brodie, Bouma, Byron, Monahan and Colborne
Prospects that are ready or very close (can be called up without looking out of place):
Baertschi, Granlund, Knight, Wotherspoon, Ortio, Hanowski, Agostino (and we can add Arnold and Gaudreau to that group)
And it likely won't be long before we can add Poirier to that group (and possibly Sieloff and Ramage) and whoever we draft in the 1st round
They are not all high-end prospects, and they are not all going to turn out. But the sheer volume of guys that are already knocking on the door is very impressive.
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