What Team has the top future D corp ?

[HabsAddict]

I'll let you know after the end of next season.

If Rein, Mailioux and Hutson are in the lineup, the answer becomes clearer...

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[Patty Ice]

Ducks have a wealth of defensive prospects I wanted the Sharks to draft (and a goaltender and forward or two). I hate it.

 

[WetcoastOrca]

NJ by a lot.

 

[Kaiden Ghoul]

Flip coin between BUF and NJ , maybe MTL

If Byram can stay healthy and if Power hit his ceilling, they will have a nasty D with Dhalin

 

[shaner8989]

Devils easily. Chicago and Anaheim are sick too.

 

[Pierce Hawthorne]

How is Buffalo on this list?

...They're easily Top 2.

Ranking the teams listed I'd have them as:


New Jersey
Buffalo


Anaheim
Detroit
Chicago
Montreal

 

[KevSkillz4]

NJ first, but MTL should go 2nd easily, solid depth.

 

[majormajor]

I think there’s wide variance on people’s impression of what ‘future’ entails. Buffalo has a great top 4 of 24-and-unders that will likely still be there and not past-prime in 3 years … by that definition they’ll have a strong short term future d corps.

But people whose view of future is a little more long term (focusing mainly on players under 22 and players not even in the league yet) would disregard most of Buffalo’s existing young but established core and be noticing the absence of pending breakthrough players.

"Prime" for a defenseman can come much later. Many of them have their best years beyond the age of 30, the Norris Trophy has often gone to an older D.

So of course we could have a separate conversation about who has the best 22 and under group, but if we want to talk about future more broadly, then players like Dahlin have to be included. He could be the best D in the league in 2033 (see Roman Josi this year, he's 33). That's not a short term outlook.

So we should absolutely be looking at players in their mid 20s. I'd consider the Rangers (Fox + K'Andre Miller and Braden Schneider), the Jackets (Werenski + Mateychuk + Jiricek) and Stars (Heiskanen + Harley + Bichsel) among others.

Blackhawks : Levshunov Vlasic Korchinski Del Mastro Rinzel Allan Kaiser Phillips , A mix of everything , size , skill , speed , offence , defence

Vlasic is supplying the defense here, and he's already looking great. I'm not seeing it with Korchinski and Levshunov, I think those guys were overdrafted. In my mind they still don't have a real great offensive catalyst in the system.

 

[majormajor]

NJ first, but MTL should go 2nd easily, solid depth.

Whether they have a #1D is the more important question.

You can replace most of the depth with pro scouting.

The goal here is not to draft literally every D position 1-6. Teams should prefer to mix in some older players.

 

[WingsToPick4th]

Edvinsson - Seider
Buium - Axel Sandin Pellikka
Wallinder - Anton Johnasson
Cleveland - Tuomisto

 

[Eegs]

It's a group of NJ, ANA and MTL here, but i've had a few beers so it's homer time - Montreal.

 

[Our Lady Peace]

Edvinsson - Seider
Buium - Axel Sandin Pellikka
Wallinder - Anton Johnasson
Cleveland - Tuomisto

Should be Albert Johansson

Underrated list of players, but I do understand it's still early for many of them

 

[Jamaican Patty]

----------- D core is insane. I voted for them, glad you added them to the poll OP.​

 

[Nevins]

Montreal:
Guhle- Mailloux
Hutson- Reinbacher
Xhekaj-Engstrom
Struble-Konyushkov
Harris- Barron
Protz

 

[Dr Quincy]

Blackhawks : Levshunov Vlasic Korchinski Del Mastro Rinzel Allan Kaiser Phillips , A mix of everything , size , skill , speed , offence , defence

More than half of those are just names. No sure thing top pairing guys there. Decent prospects but not close to BUF, DET or NJ.

 

[JianYang]

Montréal has Reinbacher, Hutson, Mailloux and Engström, with Guhle already graduated

We have a bunch others too, but those 5 are probably the best we have

Bogdan is right there with that group.

 

[Hisch13r]

I really don't think I'm being a homer here by saying it's pretty clearly the Devils. Other teams might have us beat by having some better depth pieces but I really don't give much of a shit about depth prospect pieces. I don't see how anyone really matches up to a Luke/Nemec/Silayev/Casey top 4. I mean like maybe Buffalo if Byram ends up really hitting but even then I give the Devils an edge and the Sabres ones are also all lefties. I really like the Wings top 3 of Seider, Edvinsson, ASP but the Devils still better. I think if the Wings were a bit worse and they were the ones to grab Silayev then that top 4 especially defensively between Seider, Edvinsson, and Silayev would've been absurd.

Good chance that that Seamus Casey becomes a really good offensive defenseman for the Devils as well.

He's wayyyyy better defensively than people give him credit for as well. We'll see how the defense translates at higher levels but he definitely knows how to defend and there's literally not a better partner for him than Silayev and Casey's a great partner for Silayev

 

[Michoulicious]

Buffalo: Dahlin (by far the top young D), Power, Byram.

 

[Xirik]

Luke Hughes- Nemec
Silayev - Casey
Misyul- Hatakka
Barabosha

Sure not the greatest depth after the top four but I think them and a couple others can become 3rd pairing defenseman and its not like the Devils need them to be anything more then that.

 

[majormajor]

Eight years from now, Makar, Heiskanen, Dahlin, and Quinn Hughes will be roughly the same age as Roman Josi is now. And he almost won another Norris this year.

It is farcical to discuss who the best future D corp will be and leave those players out of it. There's a good chance that those guys will continue to be better than Luke, Nemec, Hutson, etc...

 

[Siignal]

Calgary has a lot of upside long term but we aren't near cracking this list yet. Need at least 2 years before we enter this conversation.

Devils currently. The rest of the thread has done a good job of covering the 4-5 other teams, but I'm surprised to not see Minnesota anywhere in this thread with Faber/Buium. I don't know the rest of their outlook though.

 

[EXTRAS]

Lol at people saying montreal. After their top couple guys it's just depth nobody cares about that can be replaced pretty easily.

 

[Mrb1p]

What do we mean by future?

Lol at people saying montreal. After their top couple guys it's just depth nobody cares about that can be replaced pretty easily.

That is a straight lie. Guhle, DR and Hutson are legit top 15ish u23 Ds in the league (asset wise).

Then there's Mailloux, Bogdan Konyushkov, Engstrom, Xhekaj that are all pretty special.

Barron, Harris, Struble, Protz are the "names", yet they're still about as good as most teams 5th D prospect.

 

[pvr]

If Levshunov, Korchinski and Rinzel live up to their draft positions, I like Chicago's top 4 a lot.

All 6'2" and up and can skate.

Yes. And Vlasic is 6’6” and already a defensive animal, easily a 2D right now. Might be a bit too limited offensively to be considered a true 1D, but he’s still young enough to develop it.

 

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