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Originally Posted by GioforPM
In other words, they won games and got lucky (or had great amateur scouting). As opposed to tanking and/or plain sucking and getting good lottery odds.
Also - a supporter of a team that got a generational player on an 11.5% chance calling any team "lucky" is laughable.
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Actually, getting a superstar by being the worst team in the league isn't all that lucky.
On the probability scale you have way more chance of that happening than you do finding a probably Hall of Famer in the 7th round.
But that's besides the point. Every great NHL hockey team got lucky a lot along the way. You can look at GMs like Poile who has been doing everything right for about 30 years and this is his first time in the finals.
Luck plays a pretty big role in team success at the NHL level.