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Originally Posted by PepsiFree
LA did it with one top ten pick.
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True, but they also did it on the backs of:
2005 - 11th Overall: Anze Kopitar
2013 - 13th Overall: Duston Brown
2008 - 3rd Overall: Drew Doughty
and also made some of the most significant trades in modern NHL history when they acquired Jeff Carter and Mike Richards, and they were only able to do that because they had spent years building an asset base that was viewed as being valuable enough to pull off those trades.
2005 - 3rd Overall: Jack Johnson (Traded)
2003 - 11th Overall: Jeff Carter (Trade - Team Canada player)
2003 - 24th Overall: Mike Richards (Trade - Team Canada player)
And then A LOT of excellent internal development/drafting.
If we can snag an elite #1 centre at 11 like Kopitar (could Berkly Catton slide that far? I think the end of this 2023/2024 could be an absolutely massive launching point for the future), then that makes a lot possible.