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Originally Posted by codynw
I don't believe players go out there and try to play bad for a better pick. That just won't happen. Tanking has to happen at the GM level. Not firing an incompetent coach that completely lost the players, not signing Ryan O'Reilly until they were forced to, not doing anything to improve the team in season... Colorado tanked, or at least it certainly looked like they did. They drafted MacKinnon, got the coach they wanted and won the division a year later so it really worked out for them either way, but I still believe it happened.
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Their GM was fired FFS. Why would he do those things with the intention of "tanking" just so he could be fired? That makes no sense.