Just about every organization has completely blown a draft in the last 5-10 years. It's part and parcel with drafting. Sometimes teams make good picks and things just don't turn out.
The key is to continue to make picks.
What really hurts about the hunter smith/mason mcdonald isn't that they struck out, it's that they didn't make a 2nd round pick the year prior or a 1st and a 3rd round pick the year after.
Those were the start and middle of the 'rebuild' years. Tampa had a 101 point season that year and still managed to out-pick the Flames team that finished with 77 points.
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