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Originally Posted by PeteMoss
I can counter with Florida, Islanders and the Oilers that are constantly terrible as a counter point.
(Anaheim also never finished in the bottom three, they had the 2nd pick in 2005 but that was the lockout/lottery year)
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Those are 3 of the worst, if not the 3 worst, managed teams in the league over the past 5-10 years.
Plus easy to counter that the problem with Florida and NYI is that they don;t draft in the top 3 enough and too often fall in that terrible 5-10 range.
Florida are Florida still bad if instead of from 2004-2007 they draft 2nd, 20th, 3rd instead of 7th, 20th, 6th? They got Olesz, McArdle and Frolik instead they could have had Malkin, McArdle and Toews.
Do you think that better winning culture they had to not finish bottom 3 was worth more than the upgrade to Malkin and Toews?
Even finishing 3rd and getting Gudbranson and Hubredeau would look better if they had tanked worse and got Seguin and Landeskog.
I don;t think tanking alone is the answer because you need smart management to go with it but getting the top 2-3 guys in the draft gives you a lot more leeway in later rounds to not need to hit a HR with other less sure picks.
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Originally Posted by PeteMoss
Don't really think it matters much this year. 1-4 (and likely 1-5 discounting Dal Colle not playing centre) seem fairly interchangeable.
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I think it is a clear 2 maybe 3 with Bennett player draft so I don't think those top 4/5 are interchangable.