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Originally Posted by djsFlames
This would only be acceptable if this were the Bedard draft when you're talking a generational talent available.
No way in hell for this draft, at the risk of further instilling a losing culture here.
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Pretty sure the losing culture is already instilled without tanking. What else do you call an organization that never wins when it matters most?
Players are going to play hard, regardless of who is in the lineup, you'd think. I'd like to see the org shift to giving the young guys an opportunity and playing them big minutes, vs. starting your star goalie 3 of the last 4 games, giving Gio and Johnny 20+ minutes of ice, their is a difference between outright tanking and giving minutes to what you hope is the future.
And before anybody says we need our core to put up points to increase value, the padded stats these guys have accumulated amount to very little. We aren't the only people who know our cores tendency to disappear in crunch time and the decline in overall production.