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Originally Posted by Enoch Root
The team that really jumps out of that list for me (other than the Oilers, lol) is Detroit. It feels like they have sucked for a long time. But here are their recent seasons in reverse order (which shows how long it takes to truely suck):
2019: 31st
2018: 28th
2017: 26th
2016: 25th
2015: 16th
So it has taken them 5 years to get all the way to the bottom.
However, that doesn't explain their place on this list. What's weird is that, despite those bottom 5 finishes in the last 4 years, they have picked 6th, 6th, 9th and 20th. Combination of really bad luck in the lottery, plus maybe trading away a pick or two?
And where will they pick this year? 2nd?
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Detroit has done some really awkward drafting. Passing on Quinn Hughes for Zadina and then reaching for a D-man the following year. Yeah, Zadina will probably end up a pretty good goal scorer and that German d-man is apparently pretty good too but they had the kid in their back yard. They saw him more than anyone and couldn't see this coming? A solid goal-scoring winger can be pretty easy to find in the draft, but a #1 dman is usually much harder to land.