Now I'm going to say this as a self-admitted "haven't looked at CBJ's prospect pool in years" but you tell me who will be the following, who are likely:
Feel free to list as many as you like:
1C
1D
Top pairing RHsD (can be same as 1D)
1G
I won't bother with the rest of the lineup because once you have these, everyone else gets pushed down and finding other players like top 2nd pair D, 1W and 2C become easier. If you guys don't have the listed above candidates, being young doesn't mean much.
At one time LA (my team) had a young team as well with only a 1C candidate (Kopitar) and some top six wingers/forward (Simmonds, Brown, Frolov, Cammelleri, etc. ) and a single 1G candidate (Bernier), that was it. We had to draft Doughty with a 2OA (solved our 1D and top pair RHsD) and we still had to find a 1G candidate on top of Bernier (Quick). Despite all that we still had to make a zillion major trades and deals to fill out the rest.
Right now we are looking:
-Finally a true 1C canidate with Fantilli and Monahan is going to mentor him
-(Already set) Werenski is still rather young (27) so he still got some good years left
-Jirecek should be atleast a mid-low 1RHD with Werensky
-Ehhhh...jury is still out but seems with how much the media team has been trotting him out to local media/businesses seems like he's the true #1 right now...wait and see on this.
Another notes:
Lets be honest here we are drafting top 5 this year...thats another potential 1C or an S-tier RW
Lindstrom is heading into a candidate to be an S-Tier 2C who on most teams could be a 1C or 1W
Mateychuck has the potential to be a 1LHD has an outside chance to surpass him Werenski...either way looking like a very strong LHD Canidate.
Kent Johnson is looking like at least a 2LW floor with potential for 1LW
We have two very young 2RWs right now...if neither breakout to a true 1RW then we have a major trade piece.