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Originally Posted by Jay Random
It isn't a plan at all. It was pure luck. Their total lack of any rational plan to go along with it has caused them to waste the opportunity that the lottery gave them.
Virtually every team has top-2 picks from time to time. Only two teams have never picked in the top 3: the Flames and Vegas. You can't prove anything by that, because it applies to losers just as much as to winners.
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It applies almost uniformly to championship hockey teams in the modern era.
You need your top-3 picks to turn into stars.
Or you need two Hall of Fame defensemen in their prime.
But you really need your top-3 picks to be stars.
look at what happened to Florida once they started to draft Barkov, Ekblad and Huberdeau with top-3 picks instead of Nathan Horton, Jay Bouwmeester and Erik Gudbranson.