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Originally Posted by Roof-Daddy
I agree 100% but good luck around here. Blows my mind how many people are fine with an expansion team being able to build a cup contender right out of the gate by cherry picking other teams rosters and players they spent years and money and assets on acquiring.
Doesn't really matter what anybody thought before, during or immediately after the process either. It's clear now that they were allowed too much leeway and as a result were able to build too good of a team without having to earn it like every other team has to.
I'll be glad if they knock Winnipeg out, because I don't want any other Canadian based team anywhere near the Stanley Cup besides the Flames. But the NHL should be embarrassed IMO, but they won't be because clearly most of the fans are just lapping it up like a cat on a saucer of milk.
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Terrible post: The league let teams PROTECT their best players and young talent and forced Vegas to make a competitive team out of what was left by selecting from everyone else's lesser players. It's, literally, the definition of an anti-stacked deck. To think otherwise is bordering on deliberate cognitive dissonance on how the process works.
The result in Vegas is a surprising irony given the process, not a confirmation that the process was stacked in their favour.