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Originally Posted by Tinordi
Only the people who have lambasted the Oilers and face the prospect of eating serious crow are the ones now piping up saying that course is unacceptable.
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There are many teams that remain competitive for years/decades at a time while not being perpetually terrible in order to gain high picks. I would think there are more teams that see success from this than tanking. Columbus, Florida, NYI, Edmonton have all been working on this losing formula for years and it hasn't shown much improvement on any of those teams. Sure the potential is there, but until they actually do something that shows significant improvement the jury is out.
And even if the Oilers win a cup in the next few years, they will have forever and always lost their way there and in my mind, it completely flies in the face of sport in general. The fact that they are celebrated in the media and by their fans for losing is facepalm inducing.