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What you're saying is true but at least we haven't traded our recent draft picks. Lekkerimaki, Willander, D Petey, Cootes, etc and Mancini (came via trade). These players will be key part of the future and management could have easily jettisoned them in a trade for a 2C this past summer. We need to get younger and faster while maintaining some effective veterans to bolster a young group until they're ready.
The past 13 years has been the opposite: Acquiring ~25 year olds to bolster vets in a shitty attempt to skip the process of developing picks. All that has earned us is one playoff series in 2015 (lost to Calgary), bubble playoffs (we weren't getting in if it wasn't for percentage draw-in), and one series win with Tocchet.
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