GDT: 2023 Draft Lottery - 8PM ET - ESPN, Sportsnet, TVAS: Chicago #1, Anaheim #2, Columbus #3
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LiveLongandProspal
NY Rangers = America's Team
KevinRedkey
12/18/23 and beyond!
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1st they win Pat Kane, and now Bedard.
Some teams have all the luck...
Some teams have all the luck...
AmericanDream
Thank you Elon!
The level of stupidity in this thread is epic!!!
Run away? What are you like 8 years old? You want to meet up at the bike rack killer?
Given that obviously no one has said that, if that’s the best you got then you have nothing.
BrockLobster
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Kranix
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CapSpace
Caufield is lit
They're otherwise awful though whereas in 07 they already were respectable to a degree...they'll be bad for at least 2-3 seasons, this team is not contending for 5 years and may not make the playoffs for 3-4
barkovcanfinnish
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Ninjadude
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Really wish they would do the draft lottery live, and have the numbers drawn in front of the GMs. Once a team gets their number drawn, the GMs leave until they are down to their last two people. Meh…just my opinion.
Go Wings
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Veteran players?Most bad teams in a rebuild trade their best veteran players to maximize the return on picks in order to bring in more high-end talent in the draft. Or am I missing something?
They traded a 24 year old 40 goal scorer and a 21 year old 3rd overall pick.
So yah just you're missing "something"
LiveLongandProspal
NY Rangers = America's Team
But they also get players that want to go there and don't necessarily need the draft as much.
ChiHawks10
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After a full front office staff turnover. It's not really all that uncommon for a new staff to move out players from the old staff in order to try and rebuild the team they desire. Especially with an aging core and very little to build around/with on account of the draft capital it took to win 3 Cups in 6 years.
ChiHawks10
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No more than any of the other shitty teams in the NHL. Anaheim DIDN'T tank? Lol.
LiveLongandProspal
NY Rangers = America's Team
Go Wings
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Name 1 team other team that has ever traded a 24 year old 40 goal scorer and 21 year old 3rd overall pick in the name of a "rebuild".
It is incredibly uncommon and the most blatant tank job since Buffalo did it to try and get McDavid. You dont trade those type of players when you are rebuilding.
That would be like Detroit trading Seider and Raymond to "rebuild".
stl76
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You hate to see an organization that aided and abetted a known child sex abuser get rewarded like this. Not surprised, just disappointed.
They signed Dylan Strome and Vatrano in the offseason rather than unloading and kept their 20 year old NHL ready prospect in Mason McTavish up in the NHL unlike the Hawks did with their 20 year old NHL ready prospect (although I probably would've kept him away from that awful roster too)
But this was about you denying the tank, seems like you moving the goalposts is coming to terms.
Edit: I think both teams weren't trying to win games, Anaheim's defense is laughable.
EddieTheEagle
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This shows how little you know about the Hawks. Debrincat is due big money, they got value while they could. Team seemed to sour on Dach and also got value when they felt they could. They went into the last draft with zero first-round picks and walked out with three. If anything, what they did is exactly what you do when you need to change organizational culture and build it back up.
Now they pick 1 + 19 this year, as well as 4 second-round picks. They also have two first-rounders in the next two drafts. Hawks will be fine and I'll take their version of a rebuild over yours.
Funny how all season long the HF mantra was that tanking is a bad strategy.
Yes, it was a blatant tank job. So what?
