The Carolina Hurricanes currently hold 10 picks in this weekend's 2015 NHL draft, the most selections they've owned in a single draft since 1998.
If the team's drafting trends of the 17 years since then hold true once again, however, that mass of picks will soon begin to fade slowly into a mediocre collection of lifetime AHL players and forgotten prospects.
Since 1999, just two players picked by the 'Canes in the fourth round or later of any given year (Brett Bellemore in 2007 and Tyson Strachan in 2003) have gone on to play 100 NHL games, and neither have hit the 200-game milestone.