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Originally Posted by blankall
The Oilers drafted McDavid. A player like that comes along once in a generation. It took the Oilers four #1 overall picks to get McDavid. The league has now changed the rules, so you can't draft that many first overall picks anymore.
If the strategy is suck until you draft a McDavid level talent, it's probably not going to work out for you. For every Oilers with a McDavid, there's a dozen teams, who had the same strategy, with no McDavid and no cup.
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They have two, the Draisaitl is a passenger line we've been pumping out for years has been proven false. They got 2.
Go the other way and find teams that are frequent contenders win the cup without that level of talent. It's harder. Boston, basically... but Bergeron Chara is also not a replicable model. At least there's a path to the rebuild strategy.
Buffalo is the only real team who has truly bottomed out and failed to climb back up though. The other half measure bottom out teams are also floundering (Detroit). We're setting up to be a less youthfully talented Detroit right now.