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Originally Posted by Jay Random
The team has acquired one, and possibly two superstar players through the draft without bottoming out. Those posters who claimed that picking in the top 3 is the only way to get such players have a certain amount of condescension coming to them.
To be clear, this is not most of the pro-rebuild crowd. I'm in favour of a rebuild myself, and I think Conroy has been doing it in an intelligent way. It's just not his fault that the team isn't as bad as he set it up to be.
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I'm really enjoying Wolf's play, and he's trending towards being a franchise goalie, but I have a hard time calling Wolf a superstar after half of a very good season. The goalie position is just that volatile IMO.
Also, the top 3 pick argument never really applied to goalies. Hellebuyck(drafted 130th), Shesterkin(118th), Bobrovsky(undrafted), Ullmark(163rd), Saros(99th), Swayman(111th), Demko(36th), Markstrom(31st), Oettinger (26th), Vasilevskiy(19th) and Sorokin(78th) probably cover all the goalie awards and nominees over the last few seasons.