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Originally Posted by moon
You take that mentally tough team and winning culture, I'll take Crosby, Toews, Malkin, Doughty and Price and we'll see who wins.
That "top 5" mentally tough team looks to be getting us two bottom 5 finishes in a row. Meanwhile Colorado are riding top 3 picks Duchene, Landeskog and MacKinnon to a play-off spot this year and bigger things likely in the future.
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Boston has drafted in the top 5 twice in the last decade. Neither of those players currently play for them, and only Seguin played for them during their Stanley Cup win.
Drafting high is not the solution, drafting well is. Drafting 2nd or drafting 5th is irrelevant so long as you're picking the correct players and developing your TEAM properly. For every Chicago or Pittsburgh, there's an Edmonton or NYI.
So yeah, I'll take the team that's developing a winning culture and drafting 5-8 for a couple years over the team that tanks and drafts 1-3 for a couple years. Being better than Edmonton and Vancouver is never bad, draft be damned.