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Originally Posted by ComixZone
Last year's Stanley Cup winner drafted Ekblad in the same year we took Bennett, and Barkov in the same year we took Monahan.
Across the board, it seems to take nearly 10 years to build a Champion from the moment you draft your foundational cornerstone player(s).
The path featuring the bottoming-out won a Stanley Cup.
The path of doing poor but not bottoming-out, got to draft 9th overall rather than 32nd.
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I think you're confusing correlation and causation.
I crunched the numbers a couple of years back, and it turned out that all but 2 or 3 teams had a top 3 pick on their roster. I'm guessing every team in the NHL has a top 5 pick on their roster. Granted, that not all of them were developed by their organizations.
As for bottoming out for a team like Calgary. A draft pick gives the team control of the player for 7 years, not 9 or 10. Calgary would need to actually convince the drafted players to stay here as UFAs, probably by overpaying.