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Originally Posted by Cali Panthers Fan
Some teams have lots of them:
Florida Panthers
1st overall: Aaron Ekblad, Joe Thornton
2nd: Aleksander Barkov, Sam Reinhart
3rd: Jonathan Huberdeau
4th: Sam Bennett
Didn't do much for them this year though. It's a red herring argument.
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Not so sure about, literally every team in the last 13 years have players drafted in the top 4, 10 of those championship teams have 1st overall picks. Drafting 1st overall improves your chances dramatically of winning a cup. If the Rangers beat Carolina, Oilers beat flames, assuming Colorado wins, those last 4 teams all have 1st overall picks.
The flames if they win a cup, are going to have to model themselves after St.Louis, great goaltending, great coaching and some luck and they are not leading in any of those metrics right. The St.Louis model represents 7.69 percent of the Stanley cups won in the last 13 years.
Drafting 1st overall matters.....ALOT