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Originally Posted by Badgers Nose
Buffalo? Avs?
It's been a decade since CHI was really bad, since then they have not restarted. But always have new players displacing solid vets. DET is another good example.
You can't draft a winning culture and the longer you lose the harder it is to build one. I like what the Flames are doing.
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Some teams are poorly managed. It doesn't change the fact that the best teams are built around high draft picks that were obtained by being a bad team at some point. Even Detroit snowballed their terribleness in the 80s into championships in the 90s. If it weren't for Zetterberg and Datsyuk (luck), they would've had to take their medicine at some point too. I honestly think "losing culture" is an overrated term and wouldn't really exist were it not for our friends in to the north. Sports are cyclical, and good management keeps you good longer, and lessens the period when you're bad. But you still have to be bad at some point, even Detroit will get their's soon enough baring more late round picks being turned into franchise players.
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Originally Posted by Enoch Root
The majority of top players come relatively high in the draft.
This does NOT justify tanking.
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I never said it did. I really don't think any team purposefully tanks though. I mean, it happens, but it's not prevalent or anything IMO. I think some fans like to put the Flames on a pedestal like they are better than other teams for never doing it, but really 99% of teams don't do it, so we really aren't special in that way.