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Originally Posted by GranteedEV
magically adding a player of Adam Fox or Chris Pronger's calibre is a once-in-a-decade event in the NHL that only happens in hotspot travel destinations. Even if the Rangers' retool is a success, it's even less repeatable than the Oilers' acquisition of McDavid and Draisaitl
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Maybe...also shows how much is involved at tanking at the right time. If Lafreniere and Kakko lived up to the hype put around top 2 picks then Rangers should have been fine in their retool, potentially even without Fox. Flip Lafreniere and Hughes and it's probably different stories in New York and New Jersey right now.
Colorado getting Mackinnon and then sucking into Makar years later and of course Edmonton with 4 1st overall picks and then 11 top 10 picks over a 13 years span aren't really repeatable ways to build a team either.
In the end you just need to draft well no matter where you are picking, and accumulate as many picks as possible by knowing when to move on from assets, and then hope for a little luck along the way too.