The only way to ensure long term franchise success is to either be so middling you're always getting into the 10-14 range and never trading your picks, or suck hard enough (or get unlucky enough) for a top 5 pick.
I want this franchise to win, but we've had ... too much success and too much buying of success pre-Nieuwendyk to maintain that level. We came down, came down hard. We stayed competitive somehow.
Hope we lose just enough enough to help this organization get back on it's feet for the next 10 years... well we've started that and all we need is more legitimate talent...
Also, bad troll is bad go home you're drunk.
I almost think you're a Tom Hicks talking head whose next move will be trade the first for Ladislav Nagy's frozen corpse.