Just Keep Swimming
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I am just going to paste this every time I see crap like this so that people can understand why we are saying no.
We have the deepest farm system in the league, in terms of wingers, defence and we had goalies too. We pretty much had a massive surplus of anything that was not a centre. While there is a lack of future elite talent (as they are all in the NHL), the middle 6 and down guys are miles deep.
To give you some idea of the scale, this year 6 players graduated from the Marlies to NHL roster players. They are: Kapanen(RW), Johnsson(LW), Sparks(G), Marincin(LD), Holl(RD), and Gauthier(C). You could also include Dermott(LD/RD) in this too, bringing it to 7 graduates. Now even with 7 guys who played on the Marlies mostly full time last year gone, we STILL have 9 guys who would be pushing for a roster on nearly any other team (not all would make it for opening night, but many would). They are: Moore(LW), Timashov(LW), Bracco(RW), Brooks(C), Rosen(LD), Borgman(LD), Grundstrom(LW/RW), Engvall(LW/RW) and Liljegren(RD).The crazy part is we lost some good guys after last year too, like Aaltonen(C) who went to the KHL, Pickard(G) to waivers and more. The even crazier part is this doesn't include recent draft picks (last 2 drafts) with the exception of Liljegren. Sandin(LD) and SDA(C) look great so far from this draft, Rasanen(D) is developing in the KHL against men, Scott is the WHL's best goalie, Gordeev(D) looked great at camp this year, Boutillier(G) looked good at the prospects camp and others from the draft(s) have been developing nicely.
Tl;dr
We dont need depth wingers and Dmen. Actually, we don't need depth at all as Lindholm and Goat are doing well at 4C, and Kaskisuo was one of 3 Leafs prospect goalies to be top 10 in the AHL (Sparks #1, Pickard #3, Kaskisuo top10)