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Originally Posted by ComixZone
This is the one example (although, Seguin…)
They also drafted Bergeron, effectively a generational defensive player in the 2nd round in 2003 - which I would deem as outside of the modern era (defined as being the salary cap introduction -> present day), coupled with quite possibly the single greatest free agency signing in the history of the NHL? Tough to recreate that.
The fact that people point to Boston in 2011 and St. Louis in 2019 means that what? There’s one outlier every 10 years, and even then the fact that they’re outliers is even debatable.
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Boston had a run of drafting impact players in the second and third rounds with Bergeron, Krejci, Marchand, Lucic as well as pulling off the greatest two UFA singings of the decade in Chara and Thomas.
The general theme for the Boston/Dallas model is to draft really well.