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Originally Posted by Wolven
It works sometimes. It also doesn't work sometimes. One might even say it doesn't work more often than it does. This is a silly sticking point in the argument I have been seeing but a number of people have been suggesting that tanking is guaranteed championship success which is simply not true.
Buffalo has been tanking for 14 years and doesn't look to be coming out of it any time soon. UHC / Coyotes keeps rebuiding and never really goes anywhere. Columbus, Ottawa, Montreal, Philly, Vancouver, Minnesota... They have all tanked, drafted high, built their team around their good prospects and not won the cup.
The point is, there is a much larger list of teams who tear down and fail to win the cup than the list of teams who tear down and succeed.
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We're talking about ways to land a top 5 pick. He was arguing you don't need to tank to get a top 5 pick. I was arguing his example of Colorado in the Makar draft year was random luck. Typically if you want to drop into the bottom 5 you can. Chicago, San Jose. I think you'd be better off deliberately doing it than just waiting and seeing if you get some random fluke year where it happens.