For some teams the cupboards are bare; for others, they're so full there's no way every talented guy waiting in the wings is going to get an NHL opportunity. It's a spectrum that often—but not always—exists in an inverse relationship to an organization's chances of playoff success. But at the end of the day, the question remains: which NHL team has the best prospect pool?
We crunched the numbers, and the results probably won't surprise you.
Releasing these rankings at the start of the preseason allowed us to include transactions that happened later in the offseason and that significantly shifted the position of certain teams' prospect pools.