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Originally Posted by GioforPM
What Tampa did was draft Hedman and Stamkos really high in 08/09, then muddle around in the "mushy middle" for a couple years (in which they managed to make a couple fantastic mid first and 2nd round picks), get a 3OA in 2013 which they blew on Drouin, go back to the middle of the draft and get Point in the 3rd round in 2014 (after taking guys like D'Angelo earlier) and the futz around for 5 more years until they won the cup. They keys to their cup win were, in order, Vasilevskiy, Kucherov, Point, Hedman and Stamkos, and the depth. The first three were not acquired with high picks.
I don't think they fit your pattern.
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The revisionist history thing is so silly but I kind of love it. There was a point where Monahan was more productive than Mackinnon and Barkov and people (some people) were at least willing to debate who was the better pick between the three (much like the debate over whether Gaudreau or Tarasenko were better).
Colorado, Tampa, and Florida are all prime examples of teams that almost botched it entirely but got lucky in the draft and managed their way out of a disaster (something Buffalo hasn’t done).
The point of a rebuild is to gather young core pieces. You can’t really control what you get outside of just drafting at each position and collecting picks. But I feel like people are unfairly dismissing Wolf and Parekh in this equation. Maybe Parekh is nothing, but Wolf is a young top 10 goaltender who has made an argument for being considered top 5. Those are the kinds of pieces we’re looking for.
I mean yeah a top centre is pretty important but so is goaltending and defence. We might already have our Hedman, Vasilevsky, Point, and Kucherov. I’m happy to see how it plays out from here.