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Originally Posted by Caged Great
The problem is that we don't have enough supporting cast players as of yet in order to drop a superstar into in order to build a contender. A lot of teams try to get their star players first and then the supporting cast after (see Edmonton, NYI, Columbus with Nash etc.), but usually the star's contracts restricts their abilities to surround them properly. We will suck next year and likely the year after enough that we should get a MacKinnon or Drouin type prospect or two, which if you add those guys onto the 3 that we should get this year, it will mean that we'll have a big start on having a solid all round team that could then be on the verge of contending if everything is done right.
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I'm not as convinced that we're a shoe in the next few years to get guys as good as MacKinnon/Barkov. Didn't this year show us how hard it is to get into the bottom 3? Our goaltending was absolutely abysmal and we still finished 6th last. I don't think we can count on a bottom 3 pick in either of the next two years. Any year we can trade up to take a guy that we think is a true franchise player I think you have to do it. The future holds no guarantees of franchise players.