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Originally Posted by Firebot
4 out of the 5 teams with worse prospects pools have won cups and made the finals very recently
The teams he has as worse prospect pools:
27. St. Louis Blues
28. Pittsburgh Penguins
29. Washington Capitals
30. Boston Bruins
31. Columbus Blue Jackets
Teams generally have less prospects when they are good and in the win now phase. Flames were 2nd best in the NHL last year and trading picks to get above the hump is exactly what Flames should be doing. Capitals won the cup on what was considered a retooling year. The thing about prospect pools is they are no longer considered prospects if they become NHLers, which seems to be counter intuitive as you have so called prospects 2-3 years older than some guys on the team.
Our D corps age is 22, 29, 22, 22, 35, 20 assuming one of Hamonic or Brodie is moved.
We are in a win now state and should be buyers. Last year's lack of trade deadline deals cost us severely.
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Couldn't disagree more.
Chances of winning the cup are the highest when you have a long window. To have a long window, you need to have a good track record of drafting and developing prospects.
The last 10 cup winners were all consistently in the playoffs. It's about the number of stabs - not the quality of the stabs. St. Louis, Boston, Washington, Pittsburgh all have made the playoffs in at least 9 of the past 10 years (if I'm not mistaken). Chicago had a decade long streak of making the playoffs as well. Even the Kings had a good run. San Jose and Nashville are really the only exceptions, and even they both made it to the finals eventually.