kucherov
Joined: Aug. 2017
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Doughty, 3rd overall in 2008. Do you mean the team that was a non-playoff team for years, selected at the top of the draft for years and built a core of Kopitar, Quick, and Doughty? With that solid core they were able to build through the draft, Lombardi made an unreal trade to get Carter and Richards, two of the best in the league at the time. They also signed Gaborik as a free-agent. Like I said before, signing free-agents is crucial to making a top team, but you have to have the building blocks in place in order to do so. For what its worth, you won't get a trade with the value of Richards and Carter, that was a very rare thing to move the two best forwards on a team in one trade. Anyone else?