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Originally Posted by Jason14h
7 out of 8 years top 13, with 4 top 7 and a 2nd overall is “nothing exciting”
How do people expect us to copy and paste Carolina’s strategy without the main part of their strategy - pick good players early in the draft to create your core or players you eventually trade for assets that become part of the core ?
For example Coronato was 13th overall . If you find 3-4 Coronato type players and find a 2nd round Aho you have a good core . (Ignoring the 2nd overall pick that we have never even had )
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In that same time period we had Monahan, Bennett, Andersson and Tkachuk
Why are they where they are and we where we are?
Gaudreau in the 4th, Andersson in the 2nd and a first that would have been either Barzal Chabot or Connor.
I am not saying tank, which they did not, I am saying more on Carolina's back end of their players careers.
Continue to develope and pump in from the pipeline, have more draft picks than you started with, trade out high profile assets rather than use them for a run. AND be okay with losing one of those assets and not over paying the wrong ones because of how heavy your asset portfolio is already.
Great risk assesment, just look what they tried and did with Rantanen