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Originally Posted by Roof-Daddy
They pay that money to get a team. Once they have the team they should have to build it to contender status just like everybody else, not be gifted a goddamn contender right from the get go. It's a farce.
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Again, they weren't gifted a contender. It's easy for you to say this in hindsight, but at the time no one was saying that.
https://www.knightsonice.com/2018/4/...golden-knights
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What this is intended to do is remind everyone that prior to puck drop on opening night, no one was saying that the league rigged the draft so Vegas would be this massive success story. In fact, the Golden Knights were thought to be a bad team with a bottom-of-the-barrel near future. While the Knights may have had more favorable expansion rules than teams in the past, you don’t win a division with bottom-six forwards, below-average defencemen and backup goalies.
The following is what was said in the days and months after the expansion draft.
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