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Originally Posted by Tinordi
The case of the Penguins is perhaps the best example of why the draft is so important for all teams. Shoot blanks on the draft and even if you have the two best players in the world you'll still fail to win the cup.
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I'll disagree on that. They've drafted pretty well actually, and I agree with EE that their prospect pool is better than ours (although, we've been makin' some pretty good strides lately). They have too many players than require being paid quite a bit of money. You can live with Crosby's/Malkin's contracts and work around them, but when you overpay to keep Letang, that's when the cap becomes a serious issue when 3 players make up over of 1/3 of your cap space.
They can't sign quality players without any money to spare, that's why they are going to have a hard enough time to sign Niskanen, who is easily a top 4 player on their team. They'd love to have him back, but they won't have room unless they unload MAF, Letang, or even Neal if need be.