I understand we are in a place right now as a fanbase to be in love with our prospects and the future. As an optimistic person I love the enthusiasm many of us have for these kids. It feels good to be gushing about legit prospects like Monahan, Sven, Gaudreau instead of Boyd, Howse and Nemisz. Having said that we are so far away from these kids being ready to lead the team.
As much a I hate to admit it we are the Oilers in 2010/2011. They had Hall, Eberle, Pajaarvi to be really excited about. They have since sucked for 3 straight years and still have a ton of question marks even though they have added Nuge, Yak, Schultz, and Klefbom since. Right now we have Gaudreau, Sven, and Monahan. We have a lot of decent depth prospects and guys like Jankowski, Poirier, Klimchuck, Gillies with high upside. Likely we are staring 2 more rough seasons in the face before we can be excited about turning this team into a potential juggernaut
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