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Originally Posted by NegativeSpace
This argument gets trotted out enough. It bears repeating that you need to be consistently bad for years to get those types of players and the draft lottery has changed to avoid the No Good approach to building a team. Every team mentioned above gets those players before the draft lottery changes. NYR drafted first overall and there is discussion of him being traded. He isn’t an immediate franchise altering player. A high draft pick isn’t a guarantee of even an impact player and certainly not a guarantee of a franchise player.
As a fan, I prefer a team that consistently drafts well regardless of where their picks are and Flames have consistently done so for a few years now. We may have our next starting goalie from the last pick in the draft.
The crowd that thinks the team should burn the whole roster down isn’t wrong per se. I just think that it is over estimated how easy it is to draft and develop all these start players with high draft picks.
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Player development is much harder to prove but what’s the impact on a guy like Johnny when he first entered the league if the Flames traded a guy like Hudler because they wanted to lose more games? That early success helps make him the player he is today
Maybe Taylor Hall would be a superstar if he wasn’t rotting on a terrible team year after year. It’s got to be hard to work hard and improve when you get killed nightly and never play in big games