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Originally Posted by SemicolonD
There's so much luck and variance involved that you'll always find examples and counter-examples to any strategy for building a cup contender, but the whole point is to stack the odds in your favor the best you can.
Sure a #1 pick doesn't guarantee a cup, but it's your best odds at getting that franchise Center that you can build around.
Right now the Flames draft well in later rounds, and seem to be good at evaluating players in trades like Bahl, etc. We're great at finding the secondary pieces, but without our franchise pieces we'll never compete for a cup. Parekh could hopefully be one of those, but we need this kind of talent at Center.
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It's not an issue of finding a counter-example.
It's rather the issue that the number of teams who have tanked for Lord Stanley far outweigh the number of teams who have won Lord Stanley.