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Originally Posted by GioforPM
If you pick a criteria that almost every team meets, yes, winning teams will include that criteria.
All the teams that did it another way? St. Louis. Vegas obviously.
And there are other teams with multiple top 2s that haven’t won. Buffalo. Florida. NJ. NYR. Carolina (won a year after drafting a 2OA but got more later and didn’t).
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Missing is Detroit, who won in 2008. And while Boston won in 2011, their selection of Tyler Seguin the previous summer was arguably irrelevant to this discussion, having played only 13 playoff games. The same holds for the Anaheim Ducks. So, that is actually five out of the last twelve Cup winners who either did not draft in the top-two, or whose top-two selections had nothing to do with their championships.