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Originally Posted by EddyBeers
Of course you do not know for sure, but the following playoff teams from last year had a top 5 pick in the last 10 years:
1) Boston
2) Florida
3) Pittsburgh
4) Philadelphia
5) New Jersey
6) Washington
7) St. Louis
8) Phoenix
9) Chicago
10) Los Angeles
Honorable mention to the Vancouver Canucks who got their two best players with top five picks outside of that arbitrary ten year period.
It seems the vast vast majority of teams go through a period where they are basement dwellers before they can become elite again. Pretty hard to rebuild as a mediocre team drafting 13th every year.
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Kind of misleading for many of those teams. Several of them had no or nominal impact players who were top five picks in the last ten years (NJ, Philadelphia) and Boston got their impact top five pick from Toronto. Other teams in there got their core players through non top five picks or through trades.