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Originally Posted by _Q_
I would argue that it doesn't actually.
Any idiot can draft the guy on the front page of The Hockey News on draft day. It's teams that can pick gems in later rounds and hire competent coaching while making shrewd trades that usually succeed.
Look at Florida for example. 13 of the last 15 seasons they have failed to qualify for the playoffs. 6 of those seasons, they have picked in the top 5 and most other seasons they have picked top 10, yet they're still a horrible team and will probably pick top 5 again next season. The Oilers are pretty similar as well although not Florida bad.
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The Panthers are also one of the worst run teams in the league with a low payroll that has helped keep them down and also one of the teams that seems to fall in the not last/top 5 that has a lot more failures than top picks.
Sure some teams still remain bad with high picks but the majority of elite players are coming out of the top 3 picks in the draft. Taking away the bad teams likelihood of getting those guys means they are at a huge disadvantage of improving over teams that already have them and now get higher draft choices .
It sounds great to tell teams to draft better but that is unlikely to happen, as Flames fans can attest to, just by saying it or even throwing money at the problem.