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Originally Posted by GioforPM
So every year was an improvement over 2013. The real aberration was 2015.
This team isn’t as good as its 2019 record. But it’s better than it was in 2013. The question is - why isn’t it good enough, what could have been done differently to change that, and when? And it’s, IMO, a combination of bad luck, two bad trades, and simply not enough out of the starting material.
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Any team that trades two first round picks and 5 second round picks in a 24 month period for assets that are currently playing in the NHL will be better in the short term. So it is not really surprising that the team got better in the 2-4 years after those trades. If you managed to trade that quality of picks and got worse, well then that would be something. When you can expect a team that made those trades without ever recouping the picks would be worse is 5-7 years out, which is roughly the timeline we are in now.