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Originally Posted by SuperMatt18
TBH it kind of down plays the actual way Colorado built that team though and when their rebuild actually started.
2009 Matt Duchene 3rd OV
2011 Gabriel Landeskog 2nd OV
2013 Nathan MacKinnon 1st OA
2015 Mikko Rantanen 10 OA
2017 Cale Makar 4OA
They really perfected the "Suck every other year" method of building a team, and had sprinked in some playoff appearances in the years in between, before really becoming a contender near the end of the 2019 season with the addition of Makar (As we know all too well) and then won their cup in 2022.
So took 13 years from drafting Duchene to winning the cup.
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Duchene was also traded for the Byram pick(4th overall).