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Originally Posted by Jiri Hrdina
The encouraging thing is that Calgary's ranking is not just driven by the number of depth prospects, which generally has been the case for the last few years. They have one of the highest number of expected 1st liners at 2.3.
YMMV on these rankings but they are statistically based from an objective source.
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Gridin's emergence and Wyttenbach's early NCAA dominance are huge. If they luck into one of Stenberg or McKenna, and a top line centre in 2027, they have the makings of three very good lines in a few years:
Mckenna/Stenberg - Centre next year - Coronato
Gridin - Reschny - Wyttenbach
Honzek - Stockselius/Potter - Stock/Potter/Suniev/Basha/Zary/etc.
Getting McKenna or Stenberg this year would be huge as that locks down that first line winger with hopefully a superstar, but it feels like a true #1LD (like Smits?) to pair with Parekh/Mews/Bruz may be a more pressing need this year to give him a couple of years to develop.
Regardless, the foundation of this rebuild is a lot stronger than the previous one.