Frenzy31
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- May 21, 2003
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Thallis and I were having a debate on the best Blues prospect pool in their history.
late 2000’s (Petro, EJ, Oshie, Perron, Eller, Cole, Berglund,)
2023 (Dvorsky, Snuggs, Bolduc, Neighbors, Dean, Stenberg, Lindstein)
Petro probably tips it towards the 2010 pool, but I think the 2023 forward group will be better. I know it’s hard to compare, because we are projecting this current pool. But there could also be some surprises in this current pool too such as Buchinger, Loof, Pekarcik etc.
I tend to look at it more like this - and I put in 1st rounders that didn't pan out because at the time, we would have rated them higher.
1st Rebuild Core
EJ, Oshie, Perron, Eller, Cole, Berglund, Backes, Stempniak, Polak, Schwarz, Belle, Bishop (2003 - 2007)
2nd Rebuild Core - Cup
Pie, Schwartz, Tarasenko, Allen, Lehtera, Rattie, Jaskin, Edmundson, Binnington, Schmaltz, MacEachern, Parayko, (2008 - 2012) (I feel like this core needs to be separate from Oshie's due to roles in the cup team).
3rd Core
Fabbri, Barb, Walman, Husso, Blais, Dunn, Thompson, Thomas, Kostin, Toropchenko, Kyrou, Bock, Perunovich, Hofer, McGing, Tucker, Alexandrov
4th Core
Nieghbors, Kessel, Bolduc, Snuggerud (Vorobyov), Kaskimaki, Buchinger, Dvorsky, Stenberg, Lindstein, Stancl, Pekarcik (still options for busts)
Interesting notes:
1st and 2nd Cores had at least 1 1st rounders that were d. 3rd core has no 1st round D which I think shows in the system.
4th Core has 1, so far.