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Originally Posted by Enoch Root
The difference being the inclusion of top 5 picks as a set of criteria. Playoff success - sure. Combining it with top 5 picks? That's a little more... targeted.
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Yeah, exactly it introduces another variable and some bias to their analysis.
Take for example Buffalo and Detroit. Both recent teams who have had prolonged playoff droughts, and a number of high draft picks. Would you call their abundance of picks a success story? Buffalo is practically the farm team of the NHL and haven't been in the playoffs since 2008. I've lost track of the number of rebuilds they've gone through. Clearly their abundance of high picks hasn't been a success as it hasn't translated into playoff success (let alone any playoff appearances). This website makes a lot of assumptions that high draft picks = automatic playoff success and has created a false equivalence.
Where do you draw the line and decide to arbitrarily analyze each team? The past 5 years? The past 20 years? What about from 2015-2020?
Maybe this sounds like a cope but the jury is still out on the current Flames management group. We were suddenly forced into a rebuild situation after the previous one failed, give it some time.