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Originally Posted by Erick Estrada
The point is that whether it be the Penguins, Hawks, Oilers, Lighting, etc, it always comes back to the lottery balls. It doesn't matter how well run or poorly run an organization is, without the lottery balls falling in their favor they don't get the elite players that brought them success. The Flames will not be able to build a cup winning team or even really good annual regular season team like the Leafs without being saved by the lottery ball.
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I think when the franchise players come around like McDavid, Bedard, etc, absolutely it's lottery luck. And rarely is it fair.
But a contending team can be built on hitting 2-3 top 10 picks that are core players and draft meaningful contributors with top 3-round picks to supplement.
In other words, it's not McKenna or bust. Doing over our Tkachuk era and not making some of the same mistakes by rushing the rebuild, it's a different picture, and this very well could have been a contending roster.