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Originally Posted by delayedreflex
Could be a real thing being the operative term... being dead last in the league only gets you an 18.5% chance at the first overall pick. Being fifth worst in the league still only gets you a 17% chance at a top two pick. Tank as hard as you like, the odds are still against any given team getting a generational player. With the Flames' luck, they might tank their way to last place just to get 3rd overall, which might get you a good player but seems a lot less reliable than a top two pick (see 2nd overall vs. 3rd overall picks over the last 40 years).
The best way would be if you could somehow collect more lottery picks - but usually the only teams trading 1st rounders are the ones who are going to make the playoffs.
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Yeah but teams can have down years, injuries happen. The best way to achieve this is a la Ottawa- target an older winning team with one of our broken but very talented players, say Monahan or Gaudreau, and ask for the 1st in 2 years for it. Repeat. Then not only do you make our club weaker on ice and enhance our chance of landing real talent in the draft, but you also stock up on extra lottery tickets. If we're really lucky we can pittsburgh/chicago this rebuild. If we're not, then we might have to reload and try again a la colorado. But clearly what we've done for 20 years has not worked at all. It would be actually insane to continue doing the same thing over and over again.