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Originally Posted by ComixZone

and that "carefully planned manner" certainly looks to include a top 5 draft pick next summer.

If you want to call it "smart managing", which it is - then that's fine. But we're also very clearly looking for a high draft pick in next year's draft, which is what I'd categorize as "tanking", at least by management. It's not a negative though. There simply is no other smart plan of attack at this stage for our hockey team. You can't build a winner via free agency, we don't have a deep enough pool of NHL-ready prospects to push the team into the playoffs.

It is what it is. They could have gone out and overpaid mid-level talent which could have made us a bubble team, but that's poor management.

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