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Originally Posted by CliffFletcher
How long will this team be bad? Well, how long does it take to draft a new core. If you're lucky, only 3-4 seasons.
Because you can play around slotting Hudler or Backlund here and there. But to compete with the best in the conference you need 5-6 elite front-line players. And with the possible exception of Bouwmeester, none of our assets is going to yield an elite prospect. So even giving Baertschi the benefit of the doubt at this point, we're 4-5 elite prospects from building an elite core. And most of them will have to come from lottery picks.
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We should be in line for 2 or 3 lottery picks over the next 3 seasons.