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Originally Posted by PeteMoss
This is a good point. Nothing against guys like Reinhart, Ferland and Arnold but very likely they aren't difference makers anywhere. They are just depth pieces. You hope they turn into something more than bottom line forwards but its all just hope.
You can go back to those HF prospect listings threads and watch people argue until they are blue in the face that guys like Boyd and Negrin are better than the prospect lists and HF just hates the Flames... but for the most part they were right and those guys amounted to very little.
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Isn't the difference between a contending team and the pretenders depth? It is the combination of hitting it out of the park with your top picks and surrounding them with quality depth guys like Saad, Hjalmarsson, Kreger, Shaw, Bickell (You can add Bolland and big Buf) all drafted outside the first. The key is getting starters out of the first round so you aren't forced to over pay in FA for that player.
I do agree that not all will pan out, but you only need a handful of the 30 prospects listed last summer we have pan out as long as you continue to add quality (which can be the case when you can draft 6 times in the first 100 or so picks like this year).