Nope apparently just decided to skip over the entire atlantic divison when doing it lol. Doing that makes it 5th and 7th. With close enough teams to knock both to 5th or worse lol.
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Nope apparently just decided to skip over the entire atlantic divison when doing it lol. Doing that makes it 5th and 7th. With close enough teams to knock both to 5th or worse lol.
Red Wings getting #2 pick would be great - Svechnikov brothers in the same team.
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To be fair they had a chance to. But decided drafting 2 #1 pick players at 2 and 3 was more important then the 1st overall.
Burke was critized for the move. But i am sure there are not many canuck fans 15 years later saying it wasnt smart idea.
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Detroit is the only team that deserves the 1st overall pick.
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How is that exactly?
Because they were a great team forever and finally aren’t anymore?
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Hoping for the Oilers not just because I'm an Oilers fan, but also just to see the HF meltdown and the "Rasmus Dahlin should pull a Lindros" "Dahlin will be the biggest bust since Nail Yakupov" threads that will pop up.
New York Islanders nabbing a top 3 pick via the Hamonic trade would be beyond hilarious as well.
New York Islanders nabbing a top 3 pick via the Hamonic trade would be beyond hilarious as well.
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lol their first year as a team, buffalo deserves dahlin more than any team in the league
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could you imagine
Lee-Tavares-svechnikov
Zadina-Barzal-Eberle
Leddy - Dahlin
Aho - Boychuk
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If the Oilers were dumb enough to let Mcdavid go to RFA then there would be 30 teams offering him 15 million for 7 years.
Not really understanding this "Detroit has to suffer before they deserve one"
The draft isn't designed solely to reward suffering fans. If any team has truly earned the right to say "we tried our goddamn best but this time we need some freebie help from the league" it's Detroit.
And I still hate Detroit despite the conference move. Personally I'd welcome a team that actually tried to improve its team instead of one coasting on lackadaisical efforts while having the draft as a crutch to win (not gonna use the word tanking). Even if I really don't want to see a Detroit return to dominance, if they can build a proper team around someone like Dahlin without this coasting style of management they deserve to return to contention.
The draft isn't designed solely to reward suffering fans. If any team has truly earned the right to say "we tried our goddamn best but this time we need some freebie help from the league" it's Detroit.
And I still hate Detroit despite the conference move. Personally I'd welcome a team that actually tried to improve its team instead of one coasting on lackadaisical efforts while having the draft as a crutch to win (not gonna use the word tanking). Even if I really don't want to see a Detroit return to dominance, if they can build a proper team around someone like Dahlin without this coasting style of management they deserve to return to contention.
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If Matthews was only born 2 days earlier he would have been eligible for the 2015 draft and chances are he goes 3rd overall to Arizona instead of Dylan Strome.
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IMO, nobody ever "deserves" the pick more than anyone else. If you're bad you get better odds, but no one's fandom outranks anyone else.
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Yeah, that would have been fortuitous, but the way it played out in real life proves to me that the draft isn't fixed.
Agreed. Now granted, I held that you could make the argument that the first three first overall picks, sure. Edmonton fans deserved something to cheer about. Believe it or not I've always had respect for Edmonton fans for sticking through the nightmare that has been the last decade +. I may have given off an alternate impression given how upset I was that Edmonton was the team that got to pick McDavid. But I believe Edmonton fans deserve better management, ownership, and coaching rather than the best handout every year.
I think Edmonton fans deserve to NOT get Dahlin because changes still need to happen for the Oilers and there isn't going to be a whole lot of pressure for those changes if they just get rewarded another potentially generational talent for failing once again.
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I agree because anyone who is rational knows the draft lottery is not fixed.
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Dahlin to a big market like Montreal
It will also help the rivalry storylines
Dahlin vs Matthews, Eichel, Karlsson, Hedman
It will also help the rivalry storylines
Dahlin vs Matthews, Eichel, Karlsson, Hedman
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Yeah, I would probably say McDavid doesn't deserve his money. Edmonton is a classic example of a junk organization that got excited with a new toy and went out and pulled off a historic and inflationary deal they didn't need to make last summer.
