I agree with the assessment that they have a ton of skill and not a ton of size. However size is easy to find, elite skill...isn't. If you compare them to good teams it seems they have the Datsyuk/Zetterberg in skill but are lacking Franzen/Holmstrom/Cleary from the Wings elite days. (I know there are plenty of other differences on D and goaltending too.)
Imagine the Oilers Drafting Seguin over Hall, and taking Landeskog over Nuge.
Imagine Eberle-Seguin-Landeskog first line.. With the same second line... (Yak/Gagner/Hemmer)
They would be a lot scarier in that scenario. (They also shouldn't have wasted early second picks on Moroz+Pitlick lol)
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