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Originally Posted by Spinach
Plus our first-rounder from 2015 might be on the 15-16 team, so there should be a number of young players to be excited about.
Imagine a young core of forwards in Matthew Barzal (for example), Sam Bennett (for example) to go with Granlund, Monahan, Poirier, Gaudreau, Klimchuk, Baertschi, with Jankowski potentially on the horizon. Yes, please.
Finding skilled defencemen & size in the later rounds will be key. As others have said, having multiple picks in the 2nd-4th rounds especially will be necessary to address the weaknesses in the system.
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Additionally, we only need 3 d-men for the next 3 or 4 years. Smid, Gio and Brodie are all good enough to take half the spots and be quality players in those positions. You can temporarily address this through free agency while you spam picks in hopes that when Gio starts slowing down, you have others coming up through the system at the same time.