Soundwave
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History shows us we wouldn't be in the playoffs but we'd probably have the #1 pick right now.
Ironically the brain trust tried to build a team of speedy smurfs just 8 years to early, which begs the question was macT an idiot savant or just an idiot?
They never let McDavid/Draisaitl/Hall/RNH grow as a group. They played 40 games together without Klefbom and that was enough to justify blowing up a can't miss top six and betting it all on Lucic instead (stupid).
They would be playing Nashville or San Jose in the first round right now if they had not made that trade. McDavid and Draisaitl are much better players today than they were in spring 2016 when both were effectively rookies.
If they were smart they could have gotten a player like Hamonic or Tanev (who is basically the equivalent of Larsson) for much, much cheaper of a price if they had been willing to wait a minute and not go full-Chia.
They didn't make the playoffs because McDavid gets no help from a second line on his team, the way Crosby, Ovechkin, Tavares, etc. get. The reason they don't have that second line scoring is because they traded away the only non-McDavid player they had who could drive a line's offence primarily on his own shoulders to bet it all on Adam freaking Larsson.
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