Which of the playoff-caliber Central teams has the best future outlook?

[Bjornar Moxnes]

Central is a very competitive division, and imho has 5 playoff-caliber teams in Winnipeg, Colorado, Nashville, Minnesota, and Dallas. So which one do you think has the best outlook in the future?

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[Pavel Buchnevich]

Dallas in a landslide. Johnston, Stankoven, Mavrik, Oettinger, Harley, Heiskanen all young or in the middle of their careers.

 

[dalewood12]

Dallas has a very large window, and could win this spring.

 

[MNRube]

F: Kaprizov, JEE, Boldy, Rossi, Yurov, Ohgren

D: Faber, Buium

G: Wallstedt

And $12M in dead cap coming off the books this summer

 

[Magic Mittens]

Dallas in a landslide. Johnston, Stankoven, Mavrik, Oettinger, Harley, Heiskanen all young or in the middle of their careers.

Robertson could be in that list also, he's only 25

 

[Oneiro]

Dallas.

The future of the rest of those teams is much bleaker than any of those fanbases currently think.

I like Minny's pool a lot but one, they have to lock down Kap and two, I don't know if they have another similar player of that truly elite magnitude in their system. The optimism around their current group really does remind me of over a decade ago when everyone thought they'd be a powerhouse and it fizzled out as a mish mash of "very good" / career NHLers but no bus drivers. So I'm a skeptic.

 

[ViD]

Minnesota core actually looks decent and young except for Zucc

 

[Fear]

In terms of the next 5 years or so, I don't think any team is in a better position than Dallas

 

[Pavel Buchnevich]

Robertson could be in that list also, he's only 25

Slipped my mind, but absolutely.