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Originally Posted by Firebot
I will never cheer for a team that purposely tanked as bad as the Avalanche, and did it for years. Even the Oilers never tanked, Oilers just stunk.
Landeskog #2
Mackinnon #1
2017 that would have gotten Avalanche #1 were it not for the Oiler rules got lucky anyways with Makar at #4.
They got where they were because of purposely tanking, a year ago they barely made the playoffs (of course to the chagrin of Flames fans).
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Well, the bolded statement just isn't true.
But yes, the Avs did tank. This is a franchise that has had far more success than our own over the last 30 years, yet they were willing to scrape the bottom of the league for 3~ seasons and now look at their trajectory.
Meanwhile us flames fans perpetually get stuck with a team that, as you put it, stinks. We haven't had anything like sustained success, and we don't have the pieces that the avs do. I would take 3 years of incomparable suckage if it meant Mackinnon and Makar on the other end.