[Senator Clay Davis]

Originally Posted by SeeBass

Any other teams that might come to mind that look to be trapped in mediocrity?

Any other teams you can think of that are hoping for a generational player?

Any other teams asking their fans to hang on for a few years at high prices and they are not going to be going down?

Any other teams having trouble getting free agents to sign unless a significant overpay?

Any other teams look to be in a tough division with a few dominate teams?

Any other provinces not having an NHL game with any meaning being played in over 5 years?

I'll answer this briefly: The answer is all of them, but none of them as bad as Winnipeg. Accept it, in terms of drawing players, having a strong economic base of corporate and non-corporate support, and having a long term NHL viable arena, Winnipeg is DFL. And their franchise has even less hope because every sort of big time player they'll get will eventually want out anyways (see Kane, Evander). It was a nice story seeing it come back, but long term its never going to work unless a couple of miraculous things happen (namely, getting Connor McDavid or getting realigned back into a crappy division).