Originally Posted by Caged Great
The thing that makes zero sense to me is that a team needs to have about 7-8 really good players on it to be a contender
Kings - Kopitar, Brown, Carter, Richards, Quick, Doughty, Voynov
Hawks - Kane, Toews, Hossa, Bolland, Keith, Seabrook, Campbell, Hjalmarsson
Bruins - Horton, Bergeron, Marchand, Chara, Lucic, Rask, Krejic,
Penguins - Crosby, Malkin, Neal, Iginla, Morrow, Dupuis, Letang, Kunitz (each team has more, this is off the top of my head)
The Flames currently have Baertschi and Brodie. Jankowski and Gaudreau are the two other prospects that have the best chance to be added to that list, but that's really it. We have a chance to add 1 guy for sure onto the list with Baertschi and Brodie, and another two into the solid maybe category.
Frankly we are going to suck next year and the year after. Get Ho Sang, Ekblad or Reinhart next year, and Saarela or whomever in 2015 to get the star power. The thing with exceptional players is that they are going to be there each year to a varying degree.
Rushing to get a star player like MacKinnon might be will just mean that the following year's picks will not be as good and the team will get to the playoffs sooner but the team will not ever be a contender and will have to tear down again after 10 more years of frustration
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