A hugely consistent trend of failure, is bringing up prospects based on their comparable talent to what's already on the roster. That's why you end up with not just very young, but physically small and comparably weak players that aren't any good at defending. Quinn, Peterka, Benson, Krebs, Cozens for a year or so...on top of players that just aren't good defensively anyway like TT, Mitts kind of (swapped out for another poor defensive player in Byram), Power, Jokiharju.
But that's what happens when the front office decides to go the cheap route cloaked in a PR "youth movement" that can't be hindered by vets and bigger contracts "blocking the youth" bs. It's great to have a youth movement, if you allow them time to physically develop and learn defense before throwing them out for failure on NHL ice, with no decent vets to learn from.
