What a narrow minded view to have. Clearly doesn't understand the importance of a winning culture to a team in the Flames' position. You don't just stop playing the games when you're out of it. Most fans of teams in that division wouldn't understand though, anyways. Mediocre teams still get away with making the playoffs over there because the overall level of competition is markedly lower on the whole (Boston and barely Pitts can be classified as high end teams), and fans of these teams are fooled year after year into thinking that they actually have a chance at the prize, just because they make the dance. In the west they'd be horribly embarrassed and exposed for their true weaknesses. It's definitely true about them having it easy.
Anyways, he'd be one of the first to jump ship in a rebuild, and it looks like that's exactly where the Devils are headed in sooner than later. Poor ######.
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