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Originally Posted by Tinordi
This post captures well the disconnect between cheering a team and building a team.
By not playing Cowen they are trying to ice their best team... in three to five years.
They don't need Cowen as an anchor on their salary structure, they traded for him for the draft picks to rebuild their team.
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I understand the thought process of management in doing what they are doing, but from a league competitiveness standpoint, I don't like tanking and I don't think it should be encouraged. This is a tanking move.
For the record, I don't think selling off UFA's is tanking, or moving current assets for future ones, where the window of opportunity is later. Tanking for me is sitting available players (for which you gave up current assets) that would help the team compete. (Tanking is also trading away goalies, with no replacement in sight (looking at you, Buffalo), but that does not apply here.