What am I missing here?
How about you answer your own question?
Are any of them elite?
Were any of them ever protected as being elite?
It's a crap shoot if any of them even make an NHL roster.
Miller?
He's not even used to playing defense yet and the pick was made purely based on his athleticism.
Who does that? Lol
What a joke..
How do you not realize how awful your logic is. This JUST started and the whole idea of being bad is to get great talent...again we JUST started being bad. So you are complaining that they've only gotten mediocre talent through other methods since we only JUST started going this route.
Follow me here. According to you we only have mediocre talent. Being competitive is what we did until very recently. Therefore being competitive GOT us the mediocre talent you are complaining about.
Simultaneously, while you complain about the mediocre talent we got while being competitive you ALSO claim we could have stayed competitive and built a team with great talent.
Then you compound it further by acting as if we got this mediocre talent specifically bc of our current plan...even though we literally JUST started our current course. Then it's even WORSE bc the prospects are so new that the jury is still out. At least 3 have a legit chance of being at least close to elite.
Then you ask a question like "were they protected as if they're elite"? Teams were able to steal prospects in the pipeline? They needed protection? Since when?
What. The. f***.
The only remotely salient point is that losing does not guarantee a franchise player.
This point ignores that it does grant you a much much more valuable pick. It's still no guarantee but shouldn't be ignored either