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Originally Posted by Table 5
All I'm saying is that getting high draft picks sure makes finding a #1 Centre easier. While we certainly "did well" with Monahan and Bennett, they both kind of fell into our lap, didn't they? It's going to be a lot harder to find that quality player this year now that we are most likely back in the teens.
The optics of sucking is a debate for the ages, but at the end of the day, there is still no better way to build a cup winner than through high draft picks. I'm pretty sure neither the Hawks nor the Kings feel embarrassed about how they went about winning their Cups...those teams don't win without Doughty/Kane/Toews no matter what anyone tries to say.
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Agreed, and in both cases we were still kind of "lucky" to have them fall to us based on what teams above us did. Obviously only time will tel,if that's true, based on what they do and the other players picked in front do, especially with Bennett who has yet to prove anything at the NHL level, but those types of players really wouldn't have come close to being available picking outside the top 10.