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Originally Posted by The Yen Man
Flames and Oilers are like polar opposites. Oilers suck at drafting and developing, but always luck into generational talents that can drag their team into competence. Flames have no luck ever drafting any sort of generational superstar, but are good at drafting and developing later round picks into NHL players that collectively make the team competent. If Flames had the Oiler's draft lottery luck, I have no doubt they'd be perennial contenders.
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I think it is more to to with the types of bets the teams make than it is luck.
The oilers place a lot of bets on getting high end talent. With the number and probability of their bets, it is not lucky that some will eventual hit. They have a tunnel vision for this and neglect everything else.
The Flames never make bets that have a high probability of getting top end players. And the way they have historically traded so many picks and held on to aging players too long, has resulted in them not even making very many low probability bets to boot. Given the way they have been betting, I would say they have above average luck to have hit with Gaudreau and Wolf.