The 2016 NHL draft will shape the fortunes of many teams in the years to come.
Between trades and selections, no club comes away unchanged from the event. Some of the repercussions will be major and immediate, felt as soon as 2016-17; others will take years to reveal themselves.
While most of the reaction in the immediate aftermath focuses on those changes we'll see right away, it's worth taking the time to look at long-term ramifications. That's the purpose of this piece, which will integrate what we know about each team's existing prospect pipeline with our knowledge of the players selected on Friday and Saturday. We'll use that combined approach to rank each NHL team's prospect pool.
For our purposes here, a prospect is defined by eligibility for the NHL's Calder Memorial Trophy. That means we will ignore those players who have accrued 25 or more career NHL games or who have played two consecutive seasons of six or more games. We also ignore anyone who will be older than 26 by September 15.
Each team's slide will take a three-pronged approach to its prospect pool. First, we'll consider each club's existing talent. Second ...
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