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Originally Posted by stemit14
This is a good point. We can look at how virtually every team that has won cups in the last 30 years has picked in the top five of the draft but you could also point out just any many cases where teams have picked in the top five of the draft and not won any cups.
All we can say is the obvious… the cup winning teams drafted/acquired the right players at the right time. Some of that is luck (lotteries) and some of that is good scouting. Tampa especially has been really good at both professional and amateur scouting during the last 15 years. They found guys like Kucherov, Killorn, Coleman, Goodrow, Pallat, etc. that were really good players for them. Oddly enough, their first round picks over that time have not been too amazing. It’s their late picks they been really good.
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You make some good points about Tampa and I agree that building a solid contender is about more than just bottoming out for a top five pick. But Tampa got Stamkos and Hedman as top two picks. They got Drouin at #3 and flipped him for Sergachev. Vasilevsky was a first rounder albeit at #24. In any event, most of their core are their own first round picks.