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Who Will be Tanking for Gavin Mckenna in 2025 2026

I think/ hope this draft will be the last year of the Sharks drafting bottom-five. They'll take a shot at getting their 1D of the future, and then hopefully they will begin to improve and get out of the way. Give someone else a shot to draft such a talent like Celebrini, and by that I mean Philly, Seattle or Nashville.

Which of course means it will be Chicago or Pittsburgh.
 
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I predict penguins/bruins/flames/seattle/chicago being the 5 teams competing for Mckenna next year.

Of course with the lottery could go to any team lol. For all we know- he ends up a Hab if they take a step back next year
 
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See what happens after free agency is done. By then we will have an idea what teams have done with their draft capital and cap space.

Even then looking at the standing as of today a team like Nashville had no intention of being this bad so who knows who else accidently tanks without trying kinda like the Oilers. Despite what people say the Oilers never really tried to tank, they just lucked into picks due to their management team thinking they were smarter than everyone else.
 
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Pens, just in time for the aging out of their other gifted franchise player in Crosby.

We all know the Pens can’t stay afloat without a generational player around (mostly joking)
 
It depends heavily on what teams do in the offseason, some of these teams will have new defenses and some of them will keep running out tanking lineups.

Chicago is almost certainly bottom 5.

Nashville has a strong chance of being bottom 5.

Pittsburgh has a strong chance of being bottom 5.

San Jose could be depending on whether they add new defenders.

I don't think Buffalo is going to be bad enough, too many good players. The Islanders have too many good players.

There's a few other teams that would be bottom 5 with a key injury or two (e.g. Calgary if Wolf is injured, Vancouver if Quinn Hughes goes down).
 
I don't find it all thst interesting. Who gets that number one pick. Media will over hype the kid. He will be talked about alot. Probably over rating him. After the novelty wears off in his first season , media will move onto to the next junior.
Bedard was so over super hyped. Just another kid on a bad team now.
Even the huge stars to go first over all years later the team hasn't won a Cup. Dahlin, McDavid, Matthews.
Tanking is for loser GMs
 
Rodgerwilco said:
Mario doesn't even have a controlling interest in the team anymore. The team has been managed by Fenway Sports Group since 2021...

This blatant inaccuracy aside, is your actual stance here that the NHL will completely falsify the NHL draft (and somehow keep it under wraps so that no one will ever be able to call them out) and then specifically choose which team will get the #1 pick, and that they would give it to one of the smallest markets in the NHL?
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What was true was, Mario saying they may have to move and then the lockout which Pittsburgh (or any other team played a game that season) ended up with 1oa. I dunno, seems a little "convenient" to me. Also, Pittsburgh, Mario Lemieux, Stanley Cup champion, yeah, made more sense to give it to some rando small market team than Pittsburgh (said nobody ever)


I just think it's fishy af,
 
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madmike77 said:
Wolf will kill the Calgary tank again.
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Not too mention they'll keep leaning on their 30+ core of Kadri, Backlund, Weegar, Andersson, Huberdeau, Coleman as to be not good enough to make the playoffs but strong enough to ensure they have no chance at a top five pick. They've turned this into an art form through the years.

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The Sabres haven't intentionally tanked since the McDavid/Eichel draft season in 2014-15. They've been this bad unintentionally.


They're running it back next year. The only UFA with an expiring contract is James Reimer. Same roster, same coaches, same general manager.

I fully expect them to miss the playoffs for a 15th straight year, but I also assume they'll be drafting 8th-12th. Never really in the McKenna sweepstakes and never really in the playoff hunt. A complete loss of a season and further setting the franchise back as it will motivate Dahlin and others to request a trade.
 
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frisco said:
Not too mention they'll keep leaning on their 30+ core of Kadri, Backlund, Weegar, Andersson, Huberdeau, Coleman as to be not good enough to make the playoffs but strong enough to ensure they have no chance at a top five pick. They've turned this into an art form through the years.

My Best-Carey
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I don’t know. The all-in tank hasn’t done a whole lot for Chicago or Buffalo recently. There’s more than one way to build a contender.

The Pens also have a much better core of 30+ players, but it’s not hurting their tank.
 
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