The drafting is worse, but some recent picks could be decent. Goncalves, while a reach at the time, looks to be solid. Duke should be a solid middle 6 player as long as his skating doesn't hold him back too much, it looks better this year. Howard should be able to be a quality scorer, despite defensive deficiencies. Huuhtanen has 3rd line 5v5, 1st unit PP weapon written all over him if he can make it. Thompson (who we probably shouldn't have traded away) will be a decent defenseman in the league. Gauthier projects to be a middle 6 C who is defensively responsible. Finley might come around into a bottom 6 type who can chip in some scoring here and there, poor man's later career Bjugstad.
Again, all of these guys may never make it, but there's some potential. The worse issue IMHO was Yzerman/Murray drafting worse than many believe. Connolly, Namestnikov, Koekkoek, Blujus, Hart, Erne, DeAngelo (dressing room cancer), Masin, MacLeod, Stephens, Spencer, Hajek, Katchouk, Raddysh, Foote, Volkov, Fortier, Foote is pretty below average to piss poor from most of the 1st/2nd rounders from 2010-2019. Kucherov and Vasilevskiy are the only really good NHLers and Drouin has disappointed for the most part. Luckily found Palat & Point later, plus Yzerman was a masterful trader usually.
Overall, the trade for Duclair filled an immediate need in order to make the playoffs and hopefully they re-sign him