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Originally Posted by All In Good Time
If you keep ignoring the retool through significant trades and if you keep going back in history you can make some sort of “high draft pick“ argument for every team.
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Ok, you’ve convinced me, the absolute ONLY way to win a championship is to draft at least top 6 and don’t even dare to trade for a decent young centre.
You showed how the panthers won by drafting high and retooling.
Now, do the leafs!
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There’s no guarantees that things will work out, but you have to give yourself a real chance.
You have to draft foundational top tier players, and you have to be one of the absolute best managed teams in the entire league.
Simple, no?
If anything, the Leafs are a good example of what not to do with free agency. Signing high priced UFAs for a secondary role (2nd line centre) screwed up their cap structure significantly.
Leafs had Kadri + Matthews. Two homegrown top-six quality centres. Imagine if they had kept Kadri on that great deal they had him on, and then spent the $11M they gave to Tavares on solid UFA players that came up around that time that actually addressed their issues (like Tanev).