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Originally Posted by CliffFletcher
Can the anti-tankers name teams who have won Cups in the last 15 years who did not have any top-3 picks on the roster?
Tanking doesn’t guarantee success. But not tanking almost guarantees never being elite. That’s just the way the NHL is designed.
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The thing is over 20 years every team will have up and downs, and should have a top 3 pick.
Usually those top 3 picks make you better, you rise up and contend, and then it resets. Good players are picked in early picks. Good players equal better team success. Anyone disputing this is dilussional.
SOMEHOW (Incompetence?) the Flames are the exception to the cycle the rest of the teams experience. We have never had a top 3 pick. We never had the "rise up" cycle in the past 15 years.
The only rise up cycle we had was when we managed to trade for a goalie who put together arguably the greatest 3 years in NHL history.
You could argue in the past 30 years we have never been part of the typical NHL cycle of Good Team/Bad Team. We are MEH team.