The new lottery system is more or less set up to prevent teams from doing what Pittsburgh did.
They drated in consecutive drafts:
#5 #1 #2 #1 #2
Not quite as bad as the Oilers, but pretty disgraceful. Under the new system a team will never draft 4 #1-2 draft picks in a row.
I'd argue their drafting is poor, as they took J. Staal over Toews, Backstrom, and Kessel in 2006 and Fleury over E. Staal.
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