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Originally Posted by Flames Fan, Ph.D.
Best place to find talent is through the draft. But there is no way to control where you draft, and in most years there is a big gap between the first overall and fourth overall pick.
So it doesn’t make sense to run a franchise with a direction that steers it towards an outcome you truly have no control over. It’s better to commit 82 games towards an identity and work ethic rather than commit 82 games for a 1 in 4 random outcome.
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You can’t control exactly where you draft. But you can strongly influence whether your team picks in the top 10. It’s all about playing the odds.
People warn about all the teams that have failed at deep rebuilds as the reason to avoid them. What about the steady-as-she-goes teams that haven’t accomplished much of anything. Aren’t the Wild, Preds, Flyers, and Islanders cautionary tales about getting stuck in the mushy middle? I guess they’ve avoided the peril of building a losing culture, so yay for sustaining a culture of mediocrity instead?