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Originally Posted by Matty81
Just boggles my mind how many people are willing to accept a worse team next year and beyond because they think losing 3 or 4 games will magically turn us into the Oilers.
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I've said it many times, but people who want to lose deserve nothing else. Also, I didn't say losing a couple extra games would turn us into the Oilers. I said wanting to lose a couple extra games is turning you into an Oilers fan wannabe.
You guys have locked yourself into the truly foolish notion that the only path to success is to finish a season with an abysmally bad place in the standings. There are a lot of words for such thinking, none of them flattering. And anyone with even the slightest clue of how winning teams are built would realize that the difference isn't in whether you draft third or sixth. It is in how you construct your roster, top to bottom. And I have no idea how that fact is so easily lost around here from people who have watched the debacle that has been the Oilers.
Also, you want to know the lesson Begin's goals offer? That
hard work and effort is often rewarded. The nature of the goals were certainly fluky, but neither happens if Begin isn't busting his ass to get up the ice and put Howard into a panic.