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Might be some Flames that are available as well because they don't like Sutter. Actually, I would like some Flames, but, if they don't like Sutter then they probably are too sucky. Delete post....HAH

Nah, Seider, Raymond, Kasper, Eddog, and Cossa are superstars. And I will villify and hate them if they become anything less.

Might want to do a little research. Dylan Larkin scored more this year than any of those three did the year St. Louis won the Cup. Perron scored more this year than Schenn did the year they won the Cup. If those guys are capable of winning a Cup (and they did) than so are ours.

I'm saying it's pessimistic because to prove your point you've taken the bleakest view of nearly every current Red Wings and romanticized all the older guys. In some cases laughably so. For instance, Raymond=Hudler? C'mon man? Hudler was in his Draft +7 season before he scored as well as Lucas Raymond did as a 19 yo rookie. If Raymond isn't significantly better in another 5 years then maybe you'll have a point, but for right now he's WAY ahead of Jiri Hudler. This is generally the problem with all these predictions, half the guys on the list aren't even close to being done developing. Edvinsson is only as good as Kronwall? How can you conclude that? He's played literally 9 games in the NHL and is MILES ahead of where Kronwall was at the same age. You've also left off half of our best prospects. Kasper, Berggren, Mazur, Wallinder all project as top six/top four guys and you've conveniently ignored them. Another problem with the above is that you seem to be suggesting that there's some blueprint for winning teams and we just don't have the pieces. But that's misleading. The Bruins don't currently have any players as good as Datsyuk, Lidstrom, or even Zetterberg. Bergeron doesn't have the offense that either Datsyuk or Zetterberg had and they've got NOTHING like Lidstrom or Rafalski at the top of the defense. But they keep winning anyway. The 2019 Blues had maybe ONE player that would have cracked the top end of Detroit's 2008 lineup (Tarasenko), yet somehow they managed to ice a winner. The LAK won two cups with a team that was across the board worse than what we had in 2008. More rings though. Meanwhile, I probably don't have to remind you how many Cups Matthews, Marner, Nylander, Tavares, Reilly, McDavid, and Draisaitl have. Hell, how many playoff rounds have those guys won? Yet nearly all of those guys would have been at the top end of our 2008 team. Finally, (and I've already stated this elsewhere) In at least two, maybe even three, of the last five years we've gotten the best or second best player in the draft irrespective of whether we won a lottery or not. We've taken the best guys we could take, developed them well, and they're improving the team. But it takes time. Drafting Bedard would help sure, but so will any number of other players we may take this year and next. None of Datsyuk, Zetterberg, Lidstrom, Rafalski, Hudler, Filppula, Franzen or most of the other players on the 2008 team were taken in the first round. Almost all of them had long development to become top players. In terms of team building the 2008 Wings were assembled MUCH more like the current Wings than the current Avs, Oilers, or Leafs. The problem that fans (including you apparently) seem to have is that you want to skip the line. You want to draft a bunch of top end guys and then be good a few years later and it doesn't work like that. Victor Hedman and Steven Stamkos (the highest drafted players on the current Lightening) were almost 30 before Tampa was a contender. It takes time, even when you do everything right. And we didn't do everything right. We basically wasted 1st and 2nd round picks at the end of the Holland era. Yzerman basically started from scratch four years ago. You can't turn a franchise around in four years even if you hit on almost every pick (and Yzerman mostly has). Give it a second.