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Originally Posted by Aarongavey
I don’t think more than one person has said they should load up on UFAs and even that person did not say that, that is just something that you made up in your own head.
As to getting elite talent you can pull a Carolina and load up on picks. They have one guy on their roster who was a top 5 pick and he is probably their 4th best forward, surpassed by guys who were not top 5 picks. Carolina is set up pretty well for many years to come. Or you can pull a Boston who was an elite team for more than a decade and got almost no juice from their top 5 pick. Vegas is another example of a team that used a boatload of picks to become an elite team without a top 5 pick. The Jets are another team that took a similar approach.
Pretty sure most fans can stomach a rebuild, I for one have been calling for the Flames to load up on picks since about 2018. But I ain’t going to lose much sleep if they don’t get a top 5 pick because you don’t need one to build a Stanley Cup contender.
The Flames biggest problem is that they don’t have any centers in the system, not that they do not have a top 5 pick.
Hope this helps.
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Carolina won a cup in 2006 with #2 overall pick and #1C Eric Staal.
Boston won with Seguin but like I said he wasn’t a key cog. They have made it back twice and lost.
Vegas is an expansion team so how are they comparable to the other. They came into the league with best expansion draft ever and also shook down a bunch of GMs. Wonder why Seattle hasn’t replicated the same success ? They went out and got the superstar C in Chandler Stephenson.
We don’t have any centres and we don’t have the key ingredient either t an elite #1C but I guess we can just trade for one since it’s simple.