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Originally Posted by CorsiHockeyLeague
You absolutely can. It's just hard. In the Penguins' case, it requires having the two best hockey players on Earth, and to the extent they haven't been successful since, a lot of it has to do with how weak the rest of the roster is. Can't play those guys 60 minutes.
In other teams' cases, e.g. MTL this year, it requires world-class goaltending, or a massive difference between PK GA and PP GF (usually this also has something to do with goaltending).
In an ideal world, you want to give your team every chance to win. Hence, since it's really pretty hard to get the best players in the world (if "just draft Crosby" was a strategy the Oilers would have done it already), and it can be hard to get goaltending good enough for long enough to have the guy carry your team on his back. So, it's simply good management to try to get your roster and coaching staff pulling in the direction of puck possession, so you don't need those things to at least be competitive consistently.
I know this is going to fall on deaf ears and your question will be raised again, but that's the way it goes on the internet.
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if Lambert explained things exactly like this, some people here would still disagree but there wouldn't be the torches and pitchforks reaction. where that comes from is he always splatters his articles with the Horribad/Awful Team/Joke of an Organization comments. that's the clickbait junk, and Flames fans are expected to wade through all of that to get his base message? no thanks. there's a sensible way of explaining an unpopular opinion, and then there's Lamberting. stop labeling everyone here as defensive just because we don't take too kindly to juvenile insults all season long.