What will the long term results of this retool be? (Next 5 years)

[Spektre]

Here’s the list of players here already or on their way over the next 5 years. Net all of the prospects will be on the Blues even if they make the NHL. It never works out for that many prospects on one team.

If you want to add your favorite prospect to the mix, have at it.

Thomas
Kyrou
Buchnevich
Holloway
Bolduc
Stenberg
Snuggerud
Schenn
Dvorsky
Pekarcik
Neighbors
Toropchenko
Jecho
Dean
Kos


Jiricek
Lindstein
Parayko
Kessel
Broberg
Fischer
Ralph


The question remains, what will the end result be?

Also, which option is good enough for this retool to be considered successful?

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[Snubbed4Vezina]

Fringe playoff team until they acquire another legit C and top pairing D-man.

 

[CaliforniaBlues310]

We’ll end up in another Cup window if our top prospects hit near or to their potential.

Not even necessarily just because of them, but because we’ll have plenty of cap space and draft/prospect capital to acquire the higher end players to put this roster over the top.

There won’t be room for everyone, and the cap should be spiking up over the next several years. If we think Thomas’ $8.25 mil deal is a steal now…just wait until the cap is over $100 mil.

 

[Davimir Tarablad]

While we don't have a MVP level guy that can consistently take over games, I believe we've got a deep enough of a talent pool stocked that this core can be in that 2nd tier of Cup contenders, but not quite enough to be a Cup favorite.

 

[Robb_K]

Here’s the list of players here already or on their way over the next 5 years. Net all of the prospects will be on the Blues even if they make the NHL. It never works out for that many prospects on one team.

If you want to add your favorite prospect to the mix, have at it.

Thomas
Kyrou
Buchnevich
Holloway
Bolduc
Stenberg
Snuggerud
Schenn
Dvorsky
Pekarcik
Neighbors
Toropchenko
Jecho
Dean
Kos


Jiricek
Lindstein
Parayko
Kessel
Broberg
Fischer
Ralph


The question remains, what will the end result be?

Also, which option is good enough for this retool to be considered successful?

I doubt that Schenn will still be with The Blues 5 years from now. Parayko also may have retired. I would add Robertsson. He has been playing better, improving his game. You've given up on Perunovich? I think a team needs to have become a Stanley Cup contender for several consecutive years to make a retool or rebuild successful. Even whe The Blues actually WON The Stanley Cup, they didn't do it with their drafted prospects alone. The added players through trades. They couldn't have won it without O'Reilly and Schenn, and probably re-signing Perron. They'll need to acquire a couple major difference-makers on both offence and defence, that are not among their prospects or current roster. I think their late 1990s and early 2000s teams had higher quality tsalent than they have now. It was a travesty that those teams never won it.