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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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I tend to disagree. Getting a high pick gives you a much higher chance of getting a stud. Edmonton seems to have ruined players for whatever reason. Could be their development system or it could be the supporting cast, but you remove Edmonton picks and there’s a good chance you’re getting a person to build a franchise around. Edmonton seems to be an outlier.