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Originally Posted by New Era
No. There are no guarantees that tanking gets you that top line center either. Look up the road in Edmonton. How many first overalls did they have and came up empty? How many top five picks and nothing? It took the drop of a lottery ball when no one thought they had a chance to get them that #1 center. So just continue to grind away and try to find the diamond in the rough, like a #1 with the 25th pick. Maybe a lottery ball falls out way some day.
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So, continue to do exactly what they have been doing for all these years?
Do you not see a need for the team to take a different approach to get different results?
To me, the situation up North shows what that talent level can do for you. They are such a horribly managed team that the top draft picks they do have are the only reason why they have any sort of success. They aren't bad because of McDavid/Draisaitl, they are bad because they do dumb!@#$ like trade Hall for Larsson, trade two 2nd round picks for 10 games of Athanasiou, overpay players like Koskinen, Kassian, Chiasson, Russell etc, and while being incompetent on the draft floor unless they're picking top-3 (and even then, they've screwed it up). You can't overcome poor management.
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Originally Posted by transplant99
That may be the only way it happens...but its not going to happen with this GM nor this coach.
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Yeah, I don't think this team is going to tank. I think it goes beyond management and coaching though, I think it's an ownership decision. This team won't tank, which is why I think they should be taking the risk on Eichel. Players of that quality aren't available where we normally draft/seem to be poised to draft in the next few years - so if one becomes available, you absolutely go for it in my eyes.