Well right now they are a very versatile #1D and #1C. I don't see that slipping dramatically over the next four seasons, will Kopi maybe be a shutdown possession #2c towards the end? Maybe. Doughty will at the very least be a solid top pairing dman and likely still be a premeir top pairing dman. I mean barring injury how much regression do you think will occur for players that elite?
But again in my proposal I would expect Barzal to be a driving force and perhaps the best player on the team, pushing Kopi into a beast of a #2C. Vilardi should allow us to basically just roll three lines. With none of our prospects even being expected to drive their respective lines.
Someone like Drysdale would be expected to drive a second pairing if the Kings want to compete for cups. Very reasonable, Bjornfot might very well be able to do that and he's already in our system. If we draft a guy like Rossi or even someone like Holtz, if we slide in the draft, will be expected to be a good trigger man on the PP and a above avg top 6. Kaliyev would need to be the lefty trigger man on a pp and a solid top 6. Turcotte could be a above avg top 6. Fagemo, Kupari, Thomas, Madden, etc... These guys just need to be able to be good top 9 forwards. You get the point, we don't need them to be superstars they can miss projections and we will still have an incredibly deep and talented young team.
It's just too simple to make reasonable projections for our prospects and realize that we can put together a dangerous team.
Edmonton, Vancouver, vegas, Calgary? None of those teams are particularly scary going forward imo. That's a pretty beatable group going forward.
