What's especially funny about this (as you've intimated) is that even getting a Hall, RNH and Yakupov is no guarantee of any success.herb wrote:Personally, I hate the idea of following the Alberta “tank it” model where there is absolutely no guarantee of a Taylor Hall or a Ryan Nugent-Hopkins in any given draft, and even then we don’t know how these players are going to work out.
From where I stand none of those players is on the level of a Doughty (or a Kopitar although he was obviously not taken at #1) or a Toews or a Kane or a Crosby or a Malkin or etc etc.
Those teams that did get those players also had to make several other moves that had nothing whatsoever to do with drafting 1st overall and there's no reason the Canucks can't take a similar path.. at the same time the Oilers have tried to get those 1st overall picks but seem to gunshy or incompetent to make any of the other maneuvers that brought the current crop of contenders back to relevance.