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Originally Posted by Textcritic
I am not all that impressed by either of them, but I think I, like you, find Boudreau more appealing. I still think that nothing really changes until the core group is changed, but then that itself is also extremely difficult to do.
At the end of the day, and from my decades of experience as an arm-chair GM I remain convinced that it is damn hard to build a contending NHL team. There are only a few of them, and for all the years of trial and error suffered by the vast majority of franchises, it really does look to require a tonne of time, experience and luck.
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All true. Look at the top teams right now and figure out what they did to be successful. 3 our of 4 involved massive failure leading to a 1 or 2 pick - TB, TO, Avs), which Calgary's never done, even once (and when they got even close in 2014 they picked the consensus top guy left and it hasn't worked out).