Quote:
Originally Posted by moon
Sure but if you are the Panthers or Lightning and your team just sucked for the past two years it is a lot easier to sell your fans on good times coming based on Stamkos or Hubredeau coming in rather than hey we got the 15th best guy in the draft that may or may not play for our team in 3 years.
Sure the GM has to do more than hope for the 1st pick but if you give the better teams the best players and the bad teams are already behind the 8 ball with a lack of talent as it is what are the chances that they are going to get better and pass those better teams?
|
Edmonton clearly should be behind the 8 ball by any stretch, they can spend to the cap, they had mad assets that they could have moved to balance their team over the last three or four years.
you can argue that selling Florida fans on good times ahead is irrelevant since its one of the black hole franchises in terms of fan support.
By basically telling your fans that your not putting the best possible product on the ice year after year, your conning your own fans into paying top dollar for a intentionally sub standard product.
Edmonton fans for example have been ripped off.
I would almost be fine if a GM said,we're going to be terrible while we rebuild, the product is going to be substandard, we're cutting season ticket rates by 25% or whatever.
Integrity issue solved.
I take a bit of pride in knowing that our team is not lying down and dying over the last little bit. That the young players and vets that are left are fighting incredibly hard game in and game out for their jobs and for the franchise.