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Originally Posted by GioforPM
Does anyone think that Treliving, given Edmonton’s draft picks, would have constructed as a bad a team?
If you draft middle of the pack every year, you get missed of the pack players. Unless you can strike gold (but lost of team have one of those miracle draftees), or if you are in a place to attract top UFAs.
I agree that a top C is a large part of the missing puzzle. It’s pretty hard to draft one, even harder to trade for one, and they are practically never available as a UFA. I don’t think Tavares goes UFA without Toronto hanging around.
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That's why it stings so much to see the team's highest ever draft pick basically in bust territory. Oilers get Draisaitl, one pick later the Flames get Bennett. That stings. I loved the pick at the time, but Bennett just never panned out. That's going to hurt an organization.