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Originally Posted by GioforPM
Note also that a few of those high drafted guys weren't playing for their draft team when they won a cup: Eichel, Tkachuk, Reinhart. Others like Stone and Burkaovsky as well of course.
Note: Rob Thomas is like Seguin - rookie cup winner.
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To your point. I only started at 2010, but in the almost 15 year there has only been 2 teams that have drafted and developed a top 5 pick that went on to win a cup. Colorado and Florida. Florida had a bunch of higher picks traded to them to help.
Although I bet if you did this exercise going back another 5 years I think you would find twice as many teams with players from 2005-2009 (off the top of my head Washington, Pittsburgh, LA, and Chicago). Curious if that is more of an indication of the cap world back then (crazy long contracts) and maybe analytics or approach drafting is creating a bit more parity. I find it interesting that draft spanning a handful for years after the lock out is what is really driving the burn it to the foundation. Didn't work for Buffalo and we will hopefully see Edmonton fall flat. Those 2 were probably the biggest culprits of the forced/debacle of monumental proportions tank jobs.