As promised in last night's paper, your "Game Time" Prospect Department here presents a composite from a series of columns in the print edition about the Blues' developmental organization.
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In the last several editions of "Tomorrow’s Blues," your "Game Time" Prospect Department has been focusing upon the contrast between the Blues’ player development organization and that of the Blues’ main rival, the Chicago Blackhawks.
The two major points that separate the Blues’ affiliation with the Chicago Wolves from the Hawks’ affiliation with the Rockford IceHogs are one, that the Hawks have retained their first-round draft picks over the years and have consistently assigned those players to the AHL as rookies for development purposes, and two, that the Hawks have almost complete control over all strictly hockey decisions made in Rockford, where the Blues have little say in who coaches and who plays in Rosemont.