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Originally Posted by blender
Not a good metaphor at all.
A house does need a good foundation, but there are absolutely no unknowns as to what materials to use. Choosing 18-year-old hockey players is a completely different exercise fraught with unknowns.
As mentioned many times here, Sam Bennett is the perfect example of the right pick gone wrong; even with all signs pointing up, you still are not guaranteed a successful outcome.
Building a house is far more simple and straightforward.
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Quote:
Originally Posted by blender
Not a good metaphor at all.
A house does need a good foundation, but there are absolutely no unknowns as to what materials to use. Choosing 18-year-old hockey players is a completely different exercise fraught with unknowns.
As mentioned many times here, Sam Bennett is the perfect example of the right pick gone wrong; even with all signs pointing up, you still are not guaranteed a successful outcome.
Building a house is far more simple and straightforward.
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I’m not talking about the draft. I’m talking about who you decide to go forward with as part of your core and how you decided to slot them going forward. Draft picks have the potential to go bust as all hockey fans know, so a GM should definitely know that. You can’t watch Sam Bennett play wing for a playoff series and in an ok rookie season and just assume you’ve yourself an elite #1 center. That’s just pouring in the concrete and starting to build the house before the concrete sets.
I’ve said it a lot here already, Treliving rushed the rebuild. He took a fluke season filled with luck and assumed that the rebuild was over and then he traded for Hamilton, then Elliott, then added Brouwer, then traded for Hamonic, then added Neal and etc, etc. The Avalanche the season went through a similar situation the year prior that should’ve been used as a cautionary tale. They won the division, they thought they were close, they added an expensive UFA in Jarome Iginla and then they regressed.
They should’ve just continued to rebuild and add through the draft just like the Flames should’ve done. The Flames were never a Hamilton or an Elliott or a Hamonic away from contending. The saving grace for the Avs though was that they didn’t trade a lot of their picks away like the Flames did, so they’ve added Rantanen and Makar and Byram and now looked poised to be a Cup contenders for a while with a prime Nathan Mackinnon leading the way.
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