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Originally Posted by Burke Salad
It has certainly made the Penguins franchise.
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You can't separate the fact that when they were bad, they were also poor, or that they also drafted well in general outside of the top 5 picks they had, and that they also had new management at the time they turned it around.
Even if you attribute their success to high draft picks, for every "Pittsburgh", there is an Islanders, Columbus, Edmonton, Florida or Atlanta who didn't have the same success, or a Detroit that has had success despite never having many consecutive high picks.
The anecdotal evidence does not suggest a relationship between the draft lottery and success. One example does not mean correlation.