Hiller Hotseat Thread

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~3 highly essential core pieces. They were fortunate, however, to pull in other key pieces either early in their careers, through waiver wire reclamation projects, or by winning big (essentially unicorns) in the trade market.

That said, it is safe to say a main factor in Florida's success has been development, even if the talent was not always initially home grown.

Reality is that most teams who go on multi-year Stanely Cup runs hit the jackpot, on average, twice in the draft to set them up for that success and then get fortunate in free agency while drafting additional
strong role players.

Examples: Detroit, (Yzerman/Federov, Datsyuk/Zetterberg), Chicago (Toews/Kane), PItts (Lemieux/Jagr, Crosby/Malkin), Colorado (Sakic/*Forsberg, MacKinnon/Makar), Kings (Kopitar/Quick), etc.

Can we talk about Detroit for a half-second? Dude. They've got a freaking culture and a team. Holy Shiz. The one game I watched it was like premiere league match. Fans singing Mr. Brightside for some reason and then staying after the game for a fifty year old Journey song because the want to scream "SOUTH DETROIT"...bananas. Oh, and their team has missed the playoffs how many years in a row?

I know, I know it's hockey town but this is what Luc wanted to do. Guaranteed.