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Originally Posted by oldschoolcalgary
Ineptitude was reasonably close, but combined it with Blind Luck of the Oilers (and the bush league rules of the NHL) and it feels infinitely worse for Flames fans...
The topper, is the kind of arrogance their fans bring...yes, you have a good team now... winning multiple Welfare Lotteries tends to restock your cupboards regardless how crappy your scouting is...
Tanking feels like the better option than finishing in 9th place to be honest... better to roll the lottery dice imo than to struggle and miss and then get a marginal pick for all those efforts, when cratering might be a faster path to the SC...
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That's why I said be objective, which I know is tough as a sports fan.
What Flames fans are enduring is probably nothing compared to what Flyers fans endured in 2006-2008....to watch their cross-state rivals get handed the best player since Gretzky, another generational talent, an elite two-way C, a top-pairing defenseman, and a #1 goaltender all due to 4-5 seasons in the basement + a rigged draft lottery in 05.....all going to a failing hockey market with pathetic fan turnout to boot. Imagine how much it must've pained Flyers fans to know Bettman practically rigged everything in the Pens favor to avoid a relocation to Kansas City, and they became an elite team (let alone a Stanley Cup champion) as a result of it.
I'll take having to look at Edmonton and see McDavid, Draisaitl, RNH, Puljujarvi, Nurse, and Larsson over looking at Pittsburgh (as a Flyers fan) with Crosby, Malkin, Staal, Whitney, and Fleury *every* day of the week.
In saying all of that, I think I'm going to barf. Toodles.