Rich, I agree that we are a mediocre team that has a AHL farm team that may yield a few bottom 6 guys. The problem is going to be that we won't get top 10 picks, except last year, for a while and will be stuck in the dreaded middle - good enough to stay close enough to making the playoffs, but bad enough to not have a chance to compete for a Cup.
Our best hope is that our two last 1st round picks. Miro and Leonard, turn out to be really, really good and that a few other recent picks overachieve and give us a new young group of 5 or 6 guys that we can build around. Ideally, we would have tanked this year and gotten a top 10 pick, but that is looking doubtful.