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Originally Posted by TOfan
It’s not a strategy.
And if it were a strategy, how many do you need? Just one? Two? Three? Further, I’d say that there are equally as important players, or even more so, on most cup winning team tgat were drafted outside of the top 5 picks.
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Exactly.
And there are a lot of ho-hum players drafted in the top five.
Ten years ago you go in with the “strategy” that you’re going to draft top 5 for three years in a row. You draft Dal Colle (5), Strome(3), and Puljujarvi(4).
Another team is just going to prioritize scouting and development. In the same three drafts, they take Larkin(15), Rantanen(10), and McAvoy(14).
Which team do people look at as having the better “strategy”? Which team has the better base to build a cup winner?
Draft position isn’t a strategy. It’s what you do with the positions you have that matters.