Currently the best & worst rebuilds ongoing

[Borlag]

It's harder to draft top goalies and top pairing dmen than scoring forwards. The fact Yzerman most likely has those position handled, he can start going after scoring wingers. Centers are harder to find, but he has Larkin/Kasper/Danielson/MBN/Lombardi (Lombardi is on a scoring vengeance in the AHL, sick hands).

The problem with Nashville is they couldn't draft scoring forwards to save their life. I think Yzerman excels at drafting scoring forwards. That's his bread and butter.

True, forwards also tend to develop faster which means he's going with it in the right order. At the moment it does appear that mediocrity is where they're still heading. I'm somewhat reluctant in putting all trust in Kasper, Danielson, Lombardi or Brandsegg, that is until they show that they have it in the NHL as well. That's an extremely big question mark, one that wont be answered until those guys actually step on the NHL and either start producing, or show that they don't have it. Kasper's 4 points in 16 games aren't exactly screaming top 6 production. Could he get there? Sure, but until he does, it's a question mark all the same.

There was a time when guys like Zadina and Mantha looked good, and were looked as the future stars for Detroit. It doesn't happen just because we hope it would.

 

[Honour Over Glory]

Habs would be looking excellent had they taken Tkachuk, Michkov, Oettinger. Now that may have changed their positions but if it hadn’t, they’d be looking good with Tkachuk, Suzuki, Caufield, Michkov, Slaf, Laine. Plus other prospects

Or if they had a coach that could coach.

 

[OysterForever]

Ducks will be a contender in 3-4 years