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Originally Posted by Monahammer
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.
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I get your point, but it wasn't 3 years. They missed the playoffs 6 of 7 years, and 7 of 9. They didn't win a playoff round for 10 years before beating the Flames, missing the playoffs in 7 of those years.
Fortunately for them, they drafted 1st in 2013 and got MacKinnon. The three prior #1 overalls were Yakupov ('12), RNH ('11) and Hall ('10). 2014 was Ekblad. Ekblad is a great player, but he isn't a franchise changer like MacKinnon is.
So, to be a little more accurate with the point you were trying to make, they sucked for 10 years but were fortunate enough to hit bottom on the right year.