Honestly, I think prospect pool rankings are largely useless, interesting as they might be.
A team like Pittsburgh with an aging core needs way more prospects than we do, for example. I get that we finished at the bottom last year, but I think the team quality is more bubble team anyway.
Let’s say you have 2 top 4 dmen in the pool, 2 top 9 forwards and and a goalie… do you really need much more? We technically already have our top centers, wingers and defenceman on the roster and they are all young-ish.
Not really disputing it’s a weak prospect pool so much as I’m not sure it matters all that much. More disappointed that our picks were used for players that didn’t fit than the fact that they were used.