Just for fun, I went back to through each draft from 2024 to 2014. Here's each team that had a top 5 pick over that period, and the number of top 5 picks in brackets.
San Jose (2)
Chicago (4)
Anaheim (3)
Columbus (3)
Montreal (4)
Arizona/Utah (3)
New Jersey (4)
Seattle (2)
Philadelphia (2)
Buffalo (4)
New York Rangers (2)
LA (2)
Ottawa (3)
Detroit
Colorado (2)
Carolina (2)
Dallas
Vancouver (2)
Toronto (2)
Winnipeg
Columbus
Edmonton (3)
Calgary
Florida
New York Islanders
One of Colorado's top 5 picks was traded from Ottawa.
Somebody on team tank better tell the 23 teams on this list that haven't won anything with these top 5 picks what they're doing wrong and begin submitting GM applications immediately. Its crazy that LA and Chicago can't get it right given that they apparently have done it before.
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