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Originally Posted by CliffFletcher
I guess that depends on how you define it. But the Penguins burned it down to this godawful roster to put themselves in a position to draft Crosby and Malkin:
https://www.hockeydb.com/ihdb/stats/...000502004.html
This is the Blackhawks roster before drafting Toews and Kane:
https://www.hockeydb.com/ihdb/stats/...000502004.html
And the Senators basically sold off every veteran of value two seasons ago to set up their rebuild.
The salary floor means there’s a limit to how deep the selloff can be. But teams have absolutely made a strategic decision to dive to the bottom of the standings. |
Bad rosters is one thing but not sure those teams traded a bunch of players away in short period of time to get there. Just bad management got them there and financial issues. That’s different. What team traded all star caliber players away in there prime all at once when they were a playoff team a couple years in a row?