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Originally Posted by TOfan
Yet luck seems to be a common factor in building winning teams.
Makar going after Hischer, Nolan, and Hieskanen. Kucherov and Point in round 2 and 3 respectively. Off the top of my head for two recent cup winning teams.
If you consider the Stars as a contender you can probably attribute some luck in the draft that nested them Hieskanen, Robertson, and Ottenger.
Wherever you decide to draw the line between luck and talent is debatable but I don’t think you can dismiss luck entirely. I’m pretty sure ‘we’re lucky to have got him where we did’ is said at every draft.
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Makar was the 4th overall pick, that isn't luck so much as being in a high draft position to draft an elite player. They also had McKinnon at 1 which likely takes them from being a very good team with Makar to a Cup winner with MacKinnon.
The Dallas draft is much better with Heiskanen at 3rd overall versus 7,8,9 and getting Anderson, Middelstat and Rasmussen.
As many examples there are for getting lucky and it working out there are 10x (if not more) examples of that luck not happening at all.