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Originally Posted by ComixZone
I think they’re talking about the Avalanche of 16/17 where they put up 22 wins, and then selected Makar 4th overall.
Colorado had pretty much all of their core team being young and improving, and then added Makar.
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Colorado sort of went thru one rebuild where they drafted Landeskog and Duchene pretty high twice in 3 years plus got O'Reilly with their second round pick in the Duchene draft and Tyson Barrie in round 4. That first year with those two they made a surprise playoff appearance, fell back, looked on the way up again but eventually fell back pretty hard and traded off nearly everyone from that entire group except for Landeskog and drafted in a new core of MacKinnon, Raantenen, Makar plus added some other good pieces like Girard, Grubauer, Burakovski, and Kadri in trades.
Flames could be a bit like that 2013 Avalanche team was. This team would need some serious luck to win the lottery and get into a top 3 pick, but the idea of basically trading everyone else from the current team over a 3 year time frame save maybe one or two guys to have better team 7 years from now is pretty valid.