Yeah "losing culture" is a vastly overstated fear for a problem that people find difficult to identify. Losing cultures are those we just went through. Signing big UFAs, going all in to make the playoffs, relying on a core of big moneyed ageing players mailing it in. That's a losing culture. And that's what the management group dismantled.
Best example is Tavares. That single player almost completely turned that team around and lugged them to a playoff appearance two years ago. One player stamped out a decade long "losing culture" by being a good player. Now sure they regressed but Tavares being elite wallpapered over the most losing-ist of losing cultures himself.
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