Teams with a one or a few gamebreaking talents, but poor depth, and vice versa?

[Bjornar Moxnes]

Which teams have a prospect pool that has at least one game breaking talent, but otherwise very poor pool due to lack of depth, and vice versa? For vice versa, I'd give it to the Flames. They have a top 5 prospect pool in terms of depth, but outside of maybe Parekh, no gamebreaking talent.

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[Pavel Buchnevich]

Rangers. Gabe Perreault. Not much depth. We trade most of our draft picks.

 

[Stealth JD]

Blues have a ton of depth but no real star power. The result of drafting 10-25 each year: Dvorsky, Stenberg, Lindstein, Jiricek, Bolduc, Snuggerud, Dean, Jecho, Mrsic, Ralph, Ellis.

 

[VanJack]

The Canucks come to mind.....Jonathan Lekkerimaki and Tom Wilander.......after that, who knows?

 

[Bjornar Moxnes]

The Canucks come to mind.....Jonathan Lekkerimaki and Tom Wilander.......after that, who knows?

I personally dont think either are gamebreaking, and likewise I think the Canucks depth is underrated, especially on defense.

 

[archangel2]

Most teams would have the game breaker in the line up

 

[Soundgarden]

Nashville has Kemell, Svechkov, L'Hereux, Molendyk, Wood, Edstrom, Schaefer, Surin as 1st round talent, take that how you will.

 

[Pierce Hawthorne]

This pretty much screams Colorado.

Ritchie is one of the best drafted prospects in the league. But after that for the Avs, it's a barren wasteland. Maybe a few fairly unknowns, like Nabokov and Gulyayev...

But otherwise pretty close to nothing.

 

[thestonedkoala]

I don't know about elite game breaking talent, but Minnesota has Buium and Yurov and then...a lot of B/C level prospects. Even Wally is questionable at this point.

 

[GettingYourMoms]

Blues have a ton of depth but no real star power. The result of drafting 10-25 each year: Dvorsky, Stenberg, Lindstein, Jiricek, Bolduc, Snuggerud, Dean, Jecho, Mrsic, Ralph, Ellis.

Jiricek is gamebreaker, if he stays healthy he is future 50+ point top pairD. He is fantastic skater unlike his brother and is defensively very sound.

 

[Hockeyville USA]

This pretty much screams Colorado.

Ritchie is one of the best drafted prospects in the league. But after that for the Avs, it's a barren wasteland. Maybe a few fairly unknowns, like Nabokov and Gulyayev...

But otherwise pretty close to nothing.

Zellers is an intriguing longer term possibility, but we'll see how he adjusts to the NCAA at UND next year. But yes, not too much in your pool after Ritchie.

 

[majormajor]

Blues have a ton of depth but no real star power. The result of drafting 10-25 each year: Dvorsky, Stenberg, Lindstein, Jiricek, Bolduc, Snuggerud, Dean, Jecho, Mrsic, Ralph, Ellis.

That's drafting 10-25 and ALSO not drafting the elite guys that are available there, see Minnesota:

I don't know about elite game breaking talent, but Minnesota has Buium and Yurov and then...a lot of B/C level prospects. Even Wally is questionable at this point.

Buium, Yurov, Jiricek, and Wallstedt. That's an incredible top four with gamebreaking talent.