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Originally Posted by New Era
The system is no longer setup that you can suck and you're guaranteed of drafting top two. You can be dead last and you have better odds of drafting third. So of the top centers that means you can forget about getting a number one by sucking. The odds are better for teams that try to be competitive because of the damn lottery. But things aren't as bad as some like to paint the picture. Here's where some of the top 20 centers have been drafted.
Mark Scheifele - #7
Mika Zibanejad - #6
Sebastian Aho - #35
JT Miller - #15
Ryan O'Reilly - #33
Brayden Point - #79
Antze Kopitar - #11
Matthew Barzal - #16
Patrice Bergeron - #45
The talent is out there, your scouts just have to identify it and develop it.
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Originally Posted by Monahammer
Pittsburgh x3 Top 3 picks since 2004: 4 (2 x 1st, 1x 2nd) none since 2006
Chicago x3 Top 3 Picks since 2004: 4 (1 x 1st, 3x 3rd)
LA x2 Top 3 picks since 2004: 2 (2 x 2nd) *Only doughty was around for their competitive time
Tampa x1 Top 3 picks since 2004: 3 (1x 1st, 1x 2nd, 1x 3rd)
Boston x1 Top3 Picks since 2004: 1 (2nd)
St. Louis x1 top 3 picks since 2004: 1 (1st)
Washington x1 top 3 picks since 2004: 1 (1st)
Carolina x1 Top 3 picks since 2004: 2 (1 x 2nd, 1x 3rd) Eric Staal at 2nd overall just misses the cut in 2003
Anaheim x1 Top 3 picks since 2004: 1 (2nd)
Detroit x1 0 BUT DESPERATELY TRYING TO GET ONE RIGHT NOW.
You can't win a stanley cup without drafting in the top 3 in the cap era. It doesn't happen. Every one of these teams also had multiple top 5 and top 10 picks too.
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Gotta draft in the top 5 multiple times to win the Stanley cup, and almost always at least once in the top 3.
So either we tank, we trade for a top 3 selection (eichel), or we continue to not win any cups.