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Originally Posted by Resolute 14
Yup. Better to follow the Oilers model. Dump all the vets and be bad forever until suddenly, Stanley Cup champions!
Or, we can stop pretending that the development and growth of an organization is a binary process.
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Yes, because not trading a vet who won't even be here next year will turn us into the Oilers. Drama queen much?
I'm so tired of people bringing up the Oilers boogeyman all the time. There are 28 other teams in this league besides the Edmonton Oilers to learn from...and the last time I checked, all the teams who have won a Stanley Cup in the last decade where ones who did it through stockpiling picks, good drafting, patient team building, and of course, some luck. The Oilers have done none of those things...and yet if you don't cream your pants for the playoffs in year 2 of the rebuild, you get accused of being an Oiler.
All I know as a Flames fan, is that I've seen this team make it past the first round only twice in a QUARTER OF A CENTURY. Im tired of that route. I want this team to win the damn Cup, not just to make the playoffs. Cinderella teams don't win...well built teams do. And well built teams know when it's time to say trade an outgoing asset.