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Originally Posted by New Era
If you're going there, you may as well burn the whole team to the ground. Throw away all your assets on draft picks and hope that in three to five years they are ready to be NHL players. Until then piss your fans off by icing a team that is out of the playoff race by Halloween.
I've really grown to despise the draft. Every year people fall in love with 17 and 18 year olds, who they claim are certain to be the next great superstars, yet never understand that the road to the NHL is extremely difficult and players are unlikely to achieve their potential. Every year it is trade away the players you invested time, energy, and money into developing, just for more kids that you have to invest more time, energy, and money into developing, only to watch the vast majority of them fail.
Can we please get away from this vicious cycle and instead focus on trading for players that are on the verge of achieving their promise? There is always a team out there willing to make a trade for immediate help and give away those types of players. Do that and save years of development and wasted money. I appreciate it is not as much fun as watching a kid put up some gaudy numbers in the junior ranks for a couple of seasons, building the hype and setting expectations they will never achieve, but it helps with attaining a more even keel in building a team.
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Seems to me that situations like the Lindros, Brett Hull or Iginla trades happen rather rarely.
Who would be the emerging young stars today that are in play from a trade perspective?
There's nothing fun about waiting for drafted players to develop but patience can be rewarded too. I'd hate to rule out building a team through the draft.