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Originally Posted by Vinny01
Getting defense is not some easy task and virtually is the same as top forwards you need to draft them. Goaltending also is pretty tough to come by so while Toronto drafted some high end forwards who are stars they probably should have used more of those high picks on blueliners.
Toronto is also stuck in the spot where they are trading picks for win now guys which limits their prospect pool and that’s among the only ways to get cheap depth when you have 4 players making $11M+
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Building an elite hockey team is a challenge. But the tanking/rebuilding part for Toronto provided them with their best players. So to point a finger at them and say look tanking/rebuilding doesn't work is false. The tanking/rebuilding part worked. Their failure was their inability to use other methods to build the team. In fact, you could argue that the only thing they did correctly was the tanking/rebuild part, which they actually hit out of the park.