Quoting: gmgb
I'm not as high on a lot of these prospects as you. Dellandrea is an intriguing middle six prospect, but not as the main piece in a Forsberg trade. Niku, Lind, Roslovic are okayish depth pieces, but NSH's prospect pool has a lot of that right now. It's the high end prospects they're lacking and if they're trading talent like Arvidsson, Forsberg, Ekholm, the Preds should be be able to get some higher ceiling prospects back.
Fair enough. Just a difference of opinion on the prospects ceilings. I'm also considering the 1st round picks being able to restock the group. This isn't a quick turn around. Nashville would surely be bad for 2-3 seasons. If we could get a top 3 pick in the 2022 draft and end up with one of Wright, Lambert, or Savoie we'd be much closer to completing a rebuild. In 2023, you have Bedard, Yager, and Heidt as C prospects as well. If we can get better prospects that great but this is a very solid supporting cast. Typically you have to draft that very top tier group.
The way I see it:
Between Bean, Farrance, Davies, Del Gaizo, Fabbro, Chistyakov, and Yeryomenko, I think Nashville would have a solid group of future dmen.
Tomasino, Tolvanen, Roslovic, Kunin, Dellandrea, Lind, Afanasyev set a solid future wing base though top end skill is questionable. Tomasino has the makings of a good top 6 RW/C. Kunin looks like a good middle 6 RW. Roslovic could land anywhere in the top 9. Tolvanen should settle in somewhere in the middle 6. Afanasyev and Dellandrea should end up as middle 6 Cs. Throw in a couple top 5 picks, a UFA or two, and several 1st round picks and I think the team would round out and be much younger.
It would likely take 4-5 years to be truly competitive again but the bubble gum and glue aren't working. The team average age is 28. We should be peaking but we've steadily declined since the trip to the cup finals.