This isn't that complicated. You need elite players to win a Cup. The easiest way to find elite players for a small market Canadian team would be drafting them. The most probable way to draft elite players is with higher picks.
Of course it's not a guarantee but if you have a 25% chance of finding an elite player in the top 5, I'll take those odds over a 0.1% chance of finding one later in the draft.
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