Shaman464
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I said it a long time ago and I believe it now more than ever, that Hronek can become a Letang-esque #1D or something like that. Won't be perennial Norris contender, won't be an elite shutdown D, but could be great offensively, great puckmover, and good enough at D often enough that he be called a #1.
I also still believe Cholowski's ceiling is sky-high, and that he might be a guy that reaches his ceiling around 30 rather than 20-25.
Beyond those two, we keep drafting. If all we manage to draft in the top 10 are forwards, at some point we will have too many good forwards. Then you can try to do things like Yzerman already has, Drouin for Sergachev for example. Or Ryan Johansen for Seth Jones as another examples. These trades are hard, but do become more viable as you stockpile assets and start having top 10 type picks that are actually expendable. We're not there yet.
It's a long process. And to top it all off; given some recent year results I don't even know if that elite #1D is as important as people think.
Letang only is Letang because he had 2 of the top 5 centers in front of him. Teams that get away without a traditional elite #1 D tend to be deep in many other positions.