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Originally Posted by Jay Random
Vegas didn't. St. Louis didn't. Florida had two top-3 picks in the organization, from drafts 10 and 11 years before they won the Stanley Cup.
I find it interesting to look at Florida's top picks. They have picked in the top 3 seven times in their history. Ekblad and Barkov won the Cup there. The other five players were Ed Jovanovski, Jay Bouwmeester, Nathan Horton, Erik Gudbranson, and Jonathan Huberdeau, none of whom ever got a sniff at winning in a Florida uniform.
About all you can say is that if a team has that many top draft picks spread out over the years, it's pretty much guaranteed that some of them will be on the roster if the club ever wins a championship.
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It's pretty arguable that TB's high draft picks were in 4th and 5th in terms of importance to their cup wins, behind guys obtained in the late first and second rounds. And those guys were also something like ten years and two rebuilds after being drafted.