Just done reading all this, wow !!!
As a lifetime Flyer fan, I consider myself lucky the last few years of being able to cheer and root for a winning team. Do we deserve Crosby, absolutely not, A bad season for the Flyers would be like finishing 10th in the league, so there is 100% no way we would have finished last. BUT, teams like Boston, who had a great reg. season last year, meaning they would of picked in the bottom 10 ( not 100% sure where exactly, but not the point ) they had tons of free agents, who is to say that they would of been in the bottom say 8 this year. They may have picked higher this year, we don't know. This applies to the bottom 10 teams from last year, this year the worst team could have finished 10th worse and vice-versa. So, do the Flyers deserve the #1 pick, no, but how do you know for sure. Give everyone a chance, but weigh it heavily for the chronic bad teams, and we know who they are.
On another side note, every year I have a fishing trip in the middle of the bush on May long week-end, I always am worrying at this point of the year if I am going to miss a Flyer game ( Last year I missed Game 7 vs T-Bay), but his year we are arguing about crap like this, FRUSTRATING.
Peace