I disagree about putting Perunovich into the 'suspect and not a prospect' side of the line as he was our 2nd round pick just last summer and then had a really good sophomore NCAA season. He finished 3rd on his team in scoring en route to his second straight National Championship. After being the leading scorer the year before. That's a pretty damn good resume for a 20 year old and I'm not sure what else he realistically could have done to keep himself out of the 'suspect' list unless you just think his size is just an insurmountable obstacle. I also think Fitz is a prosepct, but I understand looking at any goalie prospect outside of the truly top end as just random chance.
Regardless, even if the prospects turn into suspects at your line, we are still talking about that line being after prospect #7, which isn't devastatingly shallow when you consider Thomas, Binny, and Blais all 'graduated' this year and we have a pretty strong core of guys under the age of 30. We don't really have many openings for prospects to step in over the next 2-3 years. Blais, Sunny, Mac, Barby and Sanford should provide plenty of cheap depth over the next 2-3 years, so by the time I expect our current 5th best (or worse) forward prospects to compete for those jobs, we will have had another couple drafts to shore up the pool. Same thing at D. With Petro/Parayko/Dunn almost certainly a part of the organization medium-long term (plus Gunny for a couple years and maybe Ed/Bortz), how important are the D prospects after Reinke, Mikkola, and Perunovich (and Walman/Schmaltz if you consider them still potential options)?
Don't get me wrong, it is currently a shallow prospect pool. I just think the top end of that pool combined with our current NHL roster prevents the future from looking bleak based on the current shallowness.