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Originally Posted by Tinordi
Best example of a decisive rebuild was Washington. They had Bondra, Kolzig, Jagr as a core, were terrible and decided to draft a new one. Now they aren't a perpetual contender but they're definitely a team that has had alot more success than if they tried to continue to cobble together a core and stumble through similar to what the Flames did in the late stages of the Iginla and friends relax at the country-club era.
Anyway, the goal to remind you is to win the cup not achieve meaningless moral victories like having a good culture.
Most cup winners went through a protracted period of being bad before they were good. Seems to be that's what Buffalo is doing now.
Sure it may all be for not, but that doesn't discredit the strategy. Outcomes are subject to considerable uncertainty but you take the highest probability course to emerge into a contender, which is being very bad and then becoming very good.
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To the first bold, professional sports teams are in the entertainment business, not the cup winning business. Obviously there is nothing more entertaining than winning the cup for their fans, however, it is a 30 team league and they have to sell tickets every year. It doesn't change the fact that every team wants to be as competitive and as successful as they can, but don't come in here and 'remind' us of something that isn't even accurate.
To the second bold, all teams experience ebbs and flows with respect to how competitive they are. But your generic statement about most teams being bad before they are good has little to do with what Bufflalo is doing.
Chicago was bad for a long time but not for a lack of trying.
Teams like Boston, Detroit and LA never tried to bottom-feed in order to get a few core players.
What Buffalo is doing is disgraceful and suggesting it is
the path to future success is beyond misleading. It may work for them and prove to be
a path to success, but it is by no means a mandatory one or the
right and usual one.