It's not bare, but it's not exactly stocked to the rafters either. Compare what we have now to a decade ago.
Scherbak is the type of prospect that might be very underrated. His ceiling is still really high imo. I think it's first line winger. He's got serious talent and speed. And he's developing a nice work ethic.
Add him to Poehling, Mete, Ikonen, Juulsen, and Lindgren and we have 6 prospects with the very realistic potential to become top six forward/top 4 dman/starting goalie.
Then, we have Lernout, and McCarron who are bottom 6 six/bottom pairing prospects.
And, we just graduated Hudon, Carr, De la Rose, (and Sergachev) when people were calling the cupboard bare before the season. The year before we graduated Lehkonen and Andrighetto. And if Reway wasn't hurt...
Not bad for a team that's been drafting around 25th overall, and the one time we weren't Timmins nabbed Sergachev.
And we drafted a boat load of dmen this year that I just don't know enough about. But we're starting to hear good things.
After his incredible 2005 and 2007 drafts, Timmins had a few bad years (2006, 2008, 2009). But he's been good since 2009 and is back to finding high end talent when he gets a good pick (Sergachev) and finding quality talent with later picks (Lehkonen, Hudon, Andrighetto, Juulsen, Scherbak, Poehling, Ikonen, etc..)