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Originally Posted by CASe333
You have tunnel vision thinking its more important to suck than to get fair value for your best young players. There are other scenarios for example where Chicago signs DeBrincat and sells next trade deadline for better magic beans in 2023+. You are constantly implying that Chicago has increased their odds to draft Bedard next year with these trades but they have not. None of the draft picks they received have potential to be 1rst next year and although they've gutted their team they are still very competitive with the real sucks like the coyotes so its still the same lottery.
If they were actually getting good returns for 2023-2025 high draft picks then I'd understand the argument but they flipped good prospects for a high school prospect for example from this year. Just extremely bad asset management in my opinion.
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So go into a season with no real expectation of competing outside of some miracle but a roster too good to be at the bottom of the league competing with the likes of the Yotes, Ducks, Sabres or Kraken (depending what they do in UFA). Only to trade their assets to competing teams for late round picks at the trade deadline but without the ability to "catch" the bottom teams who have been losing all season.
That's how you draft Monahan instead of MacKinnon. They're going for Bedard or Michkov to build around like they did with Kane and Toews.
Also I'm not sure how you can seriously think they haven't increased their odds of drafting first. Last year they had DeBrincat score 41 goals, Strome score 22 goals, Hagel score 21 goals (in 55 games), Dach score 9 while young and injured and Fleury providing reasonable goaltending for most of the year. Those players have not been replaced, and they are likely looking at options for Kane and Toews. Had they kept those players they would have been a far better team (but not one good enough to even sneak into the playoffs).