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Originally Posted by strombad
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.
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Sure Boston did it good for them but the Kings, Hawks, Pens all did fine with their losing cultures and top 3 picks. No reason why you can't finish bottom 3 and still make smart draft picks like the Bruins did.
Drafting high certainly isn't the solution but drafting high and drafting well is a much better way to go than just drafting well on its own.
Edmonton and NYI's problem isn't finishing low it is garbage management. Not sure anyone here is advocating for the Flames to finish low and hire morons like Lowe, Snow, Tambellini to run the team.
If anything looking at teams like Florida and Colombus finishing 4-9th has been their biggest problem why they struggled so long to get out of lottery position. Their having a better "winning culture" over teams like the Pens didn't help them out and having To choose guys like Weiss and Olesz instead of Kovalchuk and Malkin or Picard, Brule, Brassard, and Filatov over Malkin, E. Staal, Toews, Stamkos certainly doesn't make those teams feel better about not tanking and finishing 4-8th those years.
And what evidence is there that there is some sort of winning culture being developed here? The team was worse after the trade deadline last the last team the young guys were providing the team with so much energy and winning culture. This year they have continued that low level play and hardly seems like a winning culture.
After their pathetic dive last year the Avs seem to be just fine in terms of winning this year.