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Originally Posted by Hackey
I could draw you a map and you'd probably still get lost.
People keep stressing culture. The great winning culture were building versus the horrible losing culture of other teams. Posters like to act like this culture is more important than a high pick. Other posters are stating that this is way overblown and that the superior talent is more valuable than the gained culture. How do we drop in the standings? Don't think I need to explain how to do that. Pretty simple. Am I suggesting we purposely drop? No. But let's not kid ourselves that somehow being a bit more competitive is more valuable than superior talent. Elite talent is way more difficult to find than culture. If that's still foggy for you Im sorry. Let's move on.
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Elite talent does not always come from from the top 5, top 3 players in the draft. For the most part they do, but they aren't always the best players from the draft.
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only way we drop in the standings is to create a worse roster than Carolina and Buffalo. That is not happening, so to gain elite talent, you need to pretty much put up an AHL roster out there.
If our chances drop at picking in the top 3, oh well. This draft is pretty deep that I think the top 15 prospects are going to be great. So yes, our winning culture is more important to me than elite talent as of now because we are a team that looks like we won't have a top 3 pick for a while.