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Originally Posted by Badgers Nose
Hampered quite a bit? That's nonsense.
There are more examples of thrasher, jackets, oilers, panthers rebuilds than there are penguins and Blackhawks.
Burke's job is to build a winner starting a month ago. High picks are not a free pass anyway, he gets paid the big bucks to figure it out without having to tank.
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The last team to win a cup without a top 5 pick was Detroit in 08.
13 - Kane Toews
12 - Doughty
11 - Seguin
10 - Kane Towes
09 - Crosby Malkin Fleury Whitney Staal
08 - Detroit
07 - Ryan
06 - Staal
04 - Lecavalier
Monahan is a good player, but if he's your best player, you are not going to win the cup. You need at least one player that is better than him, preferably two. Reinhart/Bennett/Dal Colle/Draisaitl are all good, but if Mono was in the draft this year he'd be #1.
To win, you need stars. We have the chance to get one if we are picking 1-4 next year, so it'll be a huge disappointment and will throw a wrench in the process if we don't get that. That doesn't mean that you can't get star talent in other ways, it is just a lot more difficult.