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Originally Posted by madmike
Yes they are part of the problem. Sure they spend money. But they are opposed to tanking - which is how most teams get the players they need to win actual Stanley Cups (Oilers are obviously an exception).
If you’re dedicated to icing a consistently mediocre team, you’re going to get consistently mediocre results.
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Well I don't think you'd want an ownership that purposefully plans for tanking. Isn't that what we all made fun of the oilers for? Now we wish did it too?
Also they did give the greenlight to rebuild, which cost them money and a franchise icon in Iginla. It's not their fault that a bunch of teams outsucked us in 2013 and we missed on MacKinnon, or that the 2014 draft class and Bennet kinda busted. The plan was to still rebuild in 2015 but was anyone complaining when we made the playoffs? That we weren't tanking hard enough?
I see an ownership group that spends to the cap when we go for it, and gives the greenlight to rebuild. Our rebuild ran out of steam, we didn't get the elite talent we needed. It happens, I don't see how that's ownership's fault. For every Chicago or Pittsburgh there are rebuilds that don't work out like Arizona or Buffalo. Or Edmonton. We just didn't get there, some of that is on drafting but honestly most of it is just crappy luck. I still remember 2013 hoping all these other loser franchises that had already picked high recently like Colorado and Nash and TB would figure it out but they didn't, if we had grabbed MacKinnon this whole operation would be different now.