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Originally Posted by Sylvanfan
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...
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Well, not exactly. Duchene was moved because he requested a trade, and that didn't happen until 2017. O'Reilly was traded in 2015, and Tyson Barrie was moved just last year. It is more accurate to say that Colorado moved these players because they could afford to, after having drafted the likes of MacKinnon, Raantenen and Makar.