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Originally Posted by MattyC
As for your qualifications for the Caps, Tampa, and Colorado, if any of those contributions were attributed to Vancouver (and they are), we would say yes, it means sweet dick all. It's nice to have a relatively competitive team during the season, but I think we can all agree that 0 championships (Im looking at Tampa post-Stamkos) means you haven't done enough. Especially in the case of the Caps. Thornton was traded for and I was really only looking at post-lockout players, when it seems all this fuss over losing for first overall picks seemed to start. And again: Edmonton, Florida, Columbus, NYI.
I'll reiterate, having top guys helps but there are a couple things people seem to have trouble grapsing. a) A top pick does not guarantee you a top player, b) Even if they are a top player, it does not guarantee you anything more than that you will have to pay them a ridiculous amount of money in a few short years and c) considering the lack of guarantees above, STRIVING to pick at the top of the draft seems ridiculous to me.
It's not getting the top pick I am against. It would likely yield a very good piece. It's the cheering for losing that is for losing losers.
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Yeah, I get all that. But what's the alternative? Go after big UFAs, pick around 10th or 9th and hope they turn out / you get some later round steals? It's much more likely to get the better player the higher you are in the draft, which is pretty common sense obviously.
It depends on who's at the top of the draft too, if you see a Crosby or Tavares type prospect and you're a struggling franchise it's probably easy to say getting that top pick will benefit the team. I don't think it's so much that people are cheering for losses is that it's people have accepted that we're in a rebuild, some people just refuse that however.