Quoting: Gordon_Bombay
What to you mean by the the prospect pool?
I think Robertson is a legit mid 6 prosepct. Bracco could probably play top 9 in a weaker team. And Korshkov could play in the 4th line next year. Abramov is kind of hard to say.
On the backend I don't see others than Sandin and Lilijegren
In goal, I actually like Woll a lot
But again, I think that having just depth prospects doesn't help, and that's a lot of hope and should be in prospects. In a cap sense alone, the team right now is almost half/half NHL minimum salaries. The Leafs have one of the thinnest, weakest prospect pools in the league, unfortunately, but ultimately you'd rather have a stud on offense and defense coming up, and I don't think the leafs have that.
Its more about team mix, with almost half the cap invested in four top 4 forwards, the team will have to continue plugging in NHL minimum salaries, without a real stud coming in. The team defense isn't good and I know they'll be freed up of monies when Ceci and/or Muzzin leave, but is that enough to address the defense or just bring in another 4mil vet, who may or may not improve the team.
Sorry but IMO, theres a reason previous Cup winners, have spread out their largest salaries and talent on all sides (Crosby/Malkin/Letang/Fleury or Kane/Toews/Keith/Seabrook/Crawford). I just don't see that on the Leafs.
And to me its not just the lop sided forward salaries and talent, its the philosophy. The team defense is just lacking.