My point, which you can't seem to grasp, is that out of alllllllll these assets that you named and whom contributed to accelerate their rebuild, none of them are a top 10 picks. All of these assets comes from draft picks ranked in a range that a team trying to compete for a playoff spot every year gets.
If the habs sucked as much as the other rebuilding teams during these year (as you falsely claim), then certainly they would have obtained a few picks in the top 10? Not just one that they lost to an hostile offer, right?
So your premise, which seem to be that "Habs weren't rebuilding but they sucked so much that they gathered assets just like they were a rebuilding team" is just a load of crap.
It's really not that complicated. The more times I have to explain it to you and the silliest you look. I'll keep going because I'm sure people find it hilarious.