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Originally Posted by Fire of the Phoenix
That is awful, our pipeline is barren. At least the parent club is young because that roster is the island of misfit toys. The only 4 players I think have a chance are Phillips, Zavgorodny and Mackey, and Poolman. And I wouldn't rate their chances as good. This honestly reminds me of the Sutter years in terms of having no prospects. Like I said, at least the parent club is young there is still time to figure this out.
BT has got to stop making trades involving picks unless they are coming our way. We can't even blame the scouts really, it's all on the GM for a lack of picks, specifically rounds 1-3. Losing two former 4ths sucks considering that's usually one of our earlier picks.
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Now we are back to "What constitutes success?"
What makes Zav, MacKey, & Poolman (none of whom have played a professional hockey game) better in your eyes than Ruzicka, or Yelesin (who with Gadwin got an NHL call up)?
Are Roman and Linus failures to be used as stats on bad drafting, or just guys who didn't pan out in the great NHL crap shoot?
Though not success, in their cases I think it is just guys who couldn't take it to the next level to warrant a special contract/team slot.
A team can only have so many contracts and only have so many players at each level.
You could consider MacKey & Poolman as the 4th round replacements as they only cost the team money, not picks, to acquire. Two guys who were not progressing out, two guys who seem to be progressing in.