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Originally Posted by GreenLantern

I think this team has done a good job of a rebuild for the past few drafts, guys like Baerchi and Gaudreau although a few years off, have the chance to turn this franchise around.

If we look a little deeper at Sieloff, Wotherspoon, Gillies, Brossoit, Granlund, Arnold, Ramage, Ferland, Reinhart, Bouwma, Breen and Lamb we have a lot of potential NHLers and at the same time guys with a shot of making a difference on this team. Adding to it a top 5 and possibly 1-2 more top 30 picks in a deep draft, I think this turn around would be a lot quicker than people assume.

This gives me comfort in dealing some of our veteran players, I think the time to lean on them has passed. Sure they will be missed, but for how long?

You could go through a list of prospects on every team in the NHL and say here is bunch of potential NHLers and this guy looks poised to make a difference but it never quite works out that way unfortunately. I think we should just temper our expectations. for all we know Backlund is the new Hemsky. Bart cant translate his game to the NHL. Neimz ends up a 4th liner. Our goalies end up like Mcelhinney. You just never know. Its really 50/50 if a draft or two makes a difference. If it wasn't, than the Oilers would be cup contenders right now.