On today's episode of Locked on Wild we dive into the Colorado Avalanche roster to see what the Wild can learn from how they built themselves into a Western Conference contender! We look at just how bad the Avs were to draft the likes of Nathan MacKinnon, Gabriel Landeskog, Mikko Rantanen and Cale Makar. We look at how the Avs have built around that core through key free agent signings and trades, and further try to enforce the idea that you can only land franchise altering talent in the draft by being bad enough to draft in the top 5. It isn't an end all be all, but by being bad enough to draft in the top three in 3 different drafts has led to the Avs reaping the benefits.

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