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Originally Posted by Mathgod
Kucherov was a late 2nd round pick, Point was a 3rd rounder, Palat was a 7th rounder. No way they win those cups without those guys. I'm betting that Tampa is pretty happy they didn't trade away those picks.
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Depends where you are in your cycle.
When you have Stamkos and Hedman as teenagers/early 20s, you wanna take more draft picks.
We’re past drafting ourselves out of any of this team’s issues - Pelletier, Zary and Coronato better be able to contribute, because Darryl Sutter is not going to be giving any top-90 selections in the next three drafts any significant minutes while we have Johnny in his late 20s early 30s, Tkachuk, (presumably) Lindholm and Markstrom.
They do need to find a gem or two in the later rounds, but what they need more than anything is another superstar.
Realistically, you need two centres that would each be a #1C on 20-25 teams - Lindholm is an ideal #2C in this arrangement.
It’s incredibly unlikely to win a championship without at least a top-2 pick, or two top-3 picks that become superstars.
We have one superstar - there hasn’t been a team to win a championship with one superstar in the cap era.
It cannot be done.