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Originally Posted by Calgary4LIfe

...It is one thing to fail and rebuild - top management will avoid a total rebuild, great management will rebuild well - but it is another thing to embrace the losing culture and start focusing on the losses as the means to become great again. Terrible management embraces losing.

Craig Mactavish in an interview on 6 January, 2014, with 37 games remaining on the Oilers schedule:

Originally Posted by Craig MacTavish

"(Aaron) Ekblad is the right-handed defenceman that seems like a book-end for Nurse. …There’s some good players. The type of player we need is a guy like Curtis Lazar, like that type of driver. He and Nurse are kindred spirits, they’re just good leaders and good foot soldiers, that’s the type of guy that we could use. We get Ekblad, that’s another big piece."