Pretty much every team in the league wants to follow the boston, LA, St. Louis philosophy. If it was as easy as saying it, every team would be big, skilled, and play a 200 foot game.
For example, it's very easy to say "we'll draft the guy who is really big and plays a great 200 foot game rather than the skilled offensive forward" but it's really hard to turn down a chance to draft Sam Reinhart if he's available because everyone will say you're making a mistake going against the draft rankings. Sometimes it's risky moves that end up turning teams into contenders.
Look a LA... They are one of the best teams in the league but that only happened when they finally decided after years of rebuilding that it was time to move assets for the kind of players that they needed. It was a risk to trade away guys like Simmonds and Schenn who are actually good players and may get even better but moves like that gave them Richards and carter... who have made LA into the powerhouse that it is.
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