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Interesting. Many in the media have pegged the Jets as having one of the best prospect pools in the league. Care to qualify your statement?
Scheifele, Trouba, and most recently Ehlers, have moved on from prospect status, but we still have K. Connor, Petan, Dano, Armia, and potentially Roslovic as forwards, and Morrissey on D. Scheif, Ehlers and Trouba are very much 1st line and potential top pairing guys. Are you pegging the ceiling of the rest of those prospects as bottom 6 or 3rd pairing?
Edit: I've moved my post and your post over from the Draft thread so we don't drag it OT.
I think Hunter has a point although I think he overstates it. The 3 you named I will call 'quality'. Add Connor to them. The rest are 'quantity'. Not that they are not going to be good players but they are not going to be great players.
Right now Morrissey is the only real D prospect we have. There are a few others who have some chance but he is the only one highly likely to have a successful NHL career and we don't know yet at what level he is likely to peak. Let's say 2nd pair.
All those forward prospects project as more likely bottom 6 than anything else. Connor is top 6 and Petan might be what we would call mid 6, or not. That doesn't mean that none of them will rise any higher than the 3rd line but it is what I think looks likely right now.
So for forwards we have quantity but not a lot of quality and on D we just don't have much of either.
This is not in the context of how well Chevy's D&D is producing. It is in the context of us being more in need of quality additions than quantity additions.