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Originally Posted by Sylvanfan
Colorado has become elite more due to Makar than MacKinnon and how is it not lucky that the guy they got 4th ended up being the best player in his draft? They did keep drafting and didn't trade their future first round picks. But I don't think they signed Iginla after drafting MacKinnon and Landeskog, and Duchene with top 3 picks thinking it would make them so bad they could add Makar.
I don't see you crapping on the Hamilton trade even though the behavior was completely against a rebuild.
You just cherry pick things to fit the narrative you're trying to sell
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If the Avs have ever actually tanked they’ve gone about it in strange ways. Bad year in 08-09, draft Duchene. But mid range year the next year so they miss out on the Taylor/Tyler business. Then they flop again in time for Landeskog and the next year trade away the pick. Funny there - if they tank they get Yakupov or Galchenyuk, but there were decent picks in the bottom of the first - Wilson, Teravainen, Vasilevsky. So then they flop again this time hard enough to get Mackinnon. Play well the next year but it’s a mediocre draft (and their pick is a bust - no games and they could have had Pasternak 2 picks later). Next year they fluke out Rantanen at 10.
It’s a strange draft history IMO.