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Originally Posted by Aarongavey
The only positive is that hopefully this idea that you can build a championship team without elite talent, which in the NHL one gets by tanking, is hopefully dead and buried. The Hawks tanked and won 3 cups, the Pens tanked and won 3 Cups, the Avs tanked and won a Cup, the Lightning tanked and won two Cups, the Kings tanked and won 2 Cups. Now two teams that tanked are meeting in the Cup finals. This idea that there is a different way to build a championship team is hopefully dead and buried.
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I don't think the Kings are the same as those others. They didn't have an extended tank and a lot of their key pieces were not top 5 picks. The only one that was is Drew Doughty. But the other elite piece (Kopitar) was #11.
Hawks, Pens, Avs - all built their cores around really high picks. The Kings didn't.