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2023 Draft and UFA Thread

I've come to accept that Bedard won't be here and I'm kind of fine with it.

I just don't want him to go to Arizona. I can live with any other team, but not there. If he lands in Arizona, he's destined to become the next Marcel Dionne. An all-time great player who will probably never get the credit he deserved because he'll be in perpetual irrelevance with that Mickey Mouse franchise.
For me it's Chicago. They don't deserve top two.
 
How often does the team with most ping pong balls actually draft 1OA? No too often. Last year was a bit of an outlier. And I get the whole 45% chance of drafting 6 or 7 . . . which also means that there's a 55% they won't draft 6 or 7.
I thought of this angle too, that it just happened last year and typically doesn't repeat.
 
Like I said before , I am not taking away what Habs did in the playoffs , all guts.

My covid point is simple , without it there are no playoffs

A 24th place team got a lifeline and next year the team was still going to miss in a normal season after regime and other players are gone .

6 straight year of missing the playoffs was a guarantee .

You have to at least admit this , the 18 wheeler fell off the cliff 3 years ago , the rebuild was upon us .

Cant hope a once in a lifetime pandemic is what is required to make the playoffs
Except the salient point you keep overlooking...

That was the path
 
How often does the team with most ping pong balls actually draft 1OA? No too often. Last year was a bit of an outlier. And I get the whole 45% chance of drafting 6 or 7 . . . which also means that there's a 55% they won't draft 6 or 7.

4 times in the last 6 years. Us, Buffalo twice and Auston “Clutch” Matthews.

But we can get #1 or #2, I just don’t like the odds. NJ moved from #5 to #1 in 2017. It can happen, but it’s a shit ton of luck.
 
No seriously guys, if the NHL allows Chicago to get 1OA it would be the icing on the bush league cake.
 
Bedard. He can start right away and will be our best player. Which is why I saw the rebuild is over if we get him.

Fantilli likely is in the NHL doing well but not our best player.

McDavid was injured his first user but had 48 points in 45 games. Matthews had 40 goals. So expect bedard to be better than both of those.
I dont see it
 
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