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Originally Posted by Five-hole
Agree, and the fact that the lottery is hard to win makes being exceptionally, horridly bad not a great value proposition for the risk. You could have a 10 win season and still only have a 25% chance at 1OA, but you substantially increase the risk that you either never claw yourself out of that hole or that it takes a lot longer than it otherwise would.
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It’s just not getting the #1 pick, it’s getting the best possible pick.
Plus keeping guys who are decent players makes it longer to get out of the hole.
None of those guys will be around when Calgary next contends, so you lose out on the draft picks those players would bring in, plus make your draft possession worse.
I get the culture thing, but you can always bring in some veteran players to help with that.