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Originally Posted by Kipper_3434
Still blows my mind how some teams never seem to be bad , like Boston, Pittsburgh and Washington. All those teams have traded away draft picks and prospects, while missing on some obvious picks . Especially Boston who traded Thornton and Seguin for spare parts and drafted a bunch of nobodies with 3 firsts in a row instead of Barzal and Connor . Mind bottling
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Pittsburgh was bad for several years in a row before building their team through high draft picks and a generational player. They managed to sustain that because good players want to stay or go to winners, but all that started because they tanked for a few years. Before Lemieux and in between Lemieux and Crosby, no one wanted to go to Pittsburgh. Put Crosby in Buffalo, and Pittsburgh might not even have a team right now, while Buffalo would be the shining pearl that Pittsburgh is considered now. Washington is similar in that regard. They had to be pretty terrible in order to land probably the best natural goal scorer of our generation.
The league rewards teams that tank and damns ones that get stuck in mediocrity.