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Originally Posted by GranteedEV
this is what you said during the draft:
I think you've revised your recollection of the draft after guys like Marchessault, Karlsson, Schmidt, Theodore, Tuch, Smith blew up. On their own teams they were Bennett/Kylington/Mangiapane types. Guys that bubble teams didn't feel were worth elevating up the lineup (or in Marchessault's case, an expected one-hit-wonder)
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I've said it 1000 times already in this discussion. I was wrong. So were most people. The team is a contender, and they were gifted it off every other teams hard work and years of building their own teams. Vegas didn't build their contender through the draft, they got it gift wrapped to them.
The NHL didn't want a bottom feeding expansion team, so they relaxed the rules. Understandable, butobviously they over did it, because Vegas is a contender right out of the gate and none of the players on that team were drafted and developed by them. It isn't right.