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Originally Posted by GreenLantern2814
It doesn’t matter.
Top-5 picks, drafted or otherwise, on cap-era champions:
Carolina: Eric Staal (2) Andrew Ladd (4 - playoff call up)
Anaheim: Chris Pronger (2 - Hartford) Scott Niedermayer (4 - NJD)
Detroit: Brad Stuart (3 - SJ)
Pittsburgh: Sidney Crosby (1) Marc Andre Fleury (1) Evgeni Malkin (2) Jordan Staal (2)
Chicago: Patrick Kane (1) Jonathan Toews (3) Andrew Ladd (4 - Carolina)
Boston: Tyler Seguin - even if you want to dispute this one, they only got Seguin in the first place because they traded Kessel to the Leafs, and he was a 5th overall pick in his own right.
LA: Drew Doughty (2)
Chicago: Patrick Kane (1) Jonathan Toews (3)
LA: Drew Doughty (2) Marian Gaborik (3 - Minnesota)
Chicago: Patrick Kane (1) Jonathan Toews (3)
Pittsburgh: Sidney Crosby (1) Marc Andre Fleury (1) Evgeni Malkin (2) Phil Kessel (5 - Boston)
Pittsburgh: Sidney Crosby (1) Marc Andre Fleury (1) Evgeni Malkin (2) Phil Kessel (5 - Boston)
Washington: Alexander Ovechkin (1) Niklas Backstrom (3)
St Louis: Alex Pietrangelo (4) Brayden Schenn (5 - Los Angeles)
Tampa Bay: Steven Stamkos (1) Victor Hedman (2) Mikhail Sergachev (9 - Montreal, traded for 3rd overall pick Jonathan Drouin)
Tampa Bay: Steven Stamkos (1) Victor Hedman (2)
Colorado: Nathan MacKinnon (1) Gabriel Landeskog (2) Cale Makar (4) Bowen Byram (4) Erik Johnson (1 - St Louis)
Vegas: Jack Eichel (2) Alex Pietrangelo (4 - St Louis)
The evidence seems pretty overwhelming - you need to hit on your top 5 picks, assemble your entire core pre-salary cap, or be the Bruins.
And if any one of you ####s replies “Jonathan Huberdeau was a 3rd overall pick” then you ain’t gettin’ sent a pizza roll.
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It’s possible that this analysis is mistaking correlation for causation. It is likely that 95% of all teams in the league have one or two top five picks. Have you done the same analysis for the 17th or last ranked teams for each of those years to see how they compare?