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Originally Posted by Robbob
When ever this conversation comes up about rebuilds, what is almost missed is that most of those cup winners got extreme value from picks outside the top of the draft.
Bruins hit on late picks with Lucic, Marchand, Bergeron, and Kreji. The later 3 were the top 3 scorers on the team on their run.
Tampa probably doesn't get their cups without the contributions from late picks like Kucherov, and Point. Both years they were top scorers.
Off the top of my head, Pittsburgh is one of the few teams that you look back to and can say that the top 3 picks, they selected, carried the team. Maybe Chicago as well, but they also had a bunch of picks outside the top of the draft that contributed.
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This is the oiler failure. No success after round one.
And of Tampa’s high picks (Stamkos and Herman ) were from the previous bottoming out 10 years before their recent cup wins. That doesn’t really count as part of the rebuild.