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Originally Posted by Jay Random
No matter how badly you want there to be a strategy, there isn't one. There are things management can do to put their team out of contention, but there is nothing management can do to make the team win a Stanley Cup.
Paulie Walnuts was claiming that you can only draft top-5 if you deliberately tear down the team and do a scorched-earth rebuild. I gave a counterexample. I was not attempting to solve the general problem of how to win the Stanley Cup, because there is no general solution.
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I mean... the general solution for the last half a dozen cups seems to be salary cap circumvention through LTIR-ing players through a season to have a magical recovery for the playoffs.
Drafting all-star talent helps too, but anyone can do that.