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Originally Posted by Erick Estrada
I will say it looks like the tanking is paying off for the Sharks. They are getting close to embarrassment of riches especially after taking the 2nd best player in the 2025 draft.
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I don’t necessarily disagree but this has been said about many teams who tank and accumulate a tonne of draft picks, and multiple high ones. They don’t all come out of it at the end as a stacked super team, but some obviously do. I think where I stand in this debate, is that tanking is likely the best path to getting the young high-end talent needed to succeed, but this strategy also is a crap shoot for its own reasons (draft lottery luck, and hoping the high end picks turn into elite players and not just good players)
I’m not convinced (yet) that SJ is that team to be the next contender, but they could be. So could Chicago but I’m even less convinced there.