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Originally Posted by ComixZone
Stop looking for short cuts and put in the effort to draft and develop your own players.
There's no shortcutting this process, and if you go looking to do so all you're going to end up doing is hurting the long term ceiling of your team.
Draft. Develop. Patience is a virtue.
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100% agree. That's why it's so hard to rebuild in a Canadian market. There's so much pressure from the fanbase to shortcut the process. Even when we draft one superstar, the pressure will be on to build around that one guy and get in the playoffs again.
You look at the teams that win cups - they all have MULTIPLE home-grown star players, typically drafted very high after many years of basement-dwelling. Otherwise, you're at most building a team that will be 1st round playoff fodder.