Mckenzie, 22- How's that NHL Career turned out
Ritchie, 20 Injured
Dowling, 22 - Injured but has gone on to have a marvelous NHL career as well
Ranford, 21- Also a Marvelous NHL Career
Glennie, 22
Stransky, 20 Non Factor
Oleksiak, 20
Jokipakaka, 22
Nemeth, 21
Faksa, 19
That 13-14 Texas team was loaded with young talent and was a great team with tons of depth. Mueller, Nilstorp, and Meech didn't carry anything.
LMAO
None of the players you listed had any meaningful impact on the cup run outside of McKenzie.
Faksa i would give you, he did play in every game, of course he was a non-factor and could have been swapped for anyone during that run and they still win.
but sure they had tons of "young talent" after all even though 90% of the team amounted to career AHLers they at least were young.
Jokipakka went to the KHL
Glennie is out of hockey
Stransky, KHL (better # than guryanov though, not that it means much)
Ranford, AHL scrub still
Dowling, AHL scrub still
The only 2 names you've got are Oleksiak and Nemeth, and while they were solid contributors both reg season and playoffs for texas that year and have gone on to have success at the NHL level.
Fortunus, Meech and Gaunce were taking the tougher assignments.
So as stated, that team, much like this past years team, were carried by Veterans.
You take away any one of the names you mentioned, save maybe McKenzie, that team still wins, Take away Morin, or Nilstorp and they don't
Morin, Mueller Nilstorp and Meech absolutely did carry that team.