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Originally Posted by Street Pharmacist
He was being sarcastic. He was pointing out the silliness of the "outside of McDavid, Nurse and Draisaitl the oilers have average prospects" argument
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Oh I think I missed a couple posts there... d'oh!
After McDavid graduates and IF Nurse and Draisaitl do this year (I'd bet on it), that pool is instantly bottom 3 in the league. It's kind of hard to compare a team's D to a prospect pool, even tongue in cheek. When a player graduates, the pool suffers and the team gets better. It gets emptied and refilled perpetually, I think it is worth noting that when their top 3 graduate (likely this year), the pool will be crap... because it will be. You can't say that about many teams I'm the league, most could lose their top 3 and still have enough depth to be respectable despite being severely diminished. That is the point of a feeder system, you cant just rely on your top 5 picks every year as they tend to go right to the NHL anyway.
It was just another way of saying Edmonton 's pool has no depth.