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Originally Posted by Jay Random
I sometimes wonder just how old the average CP poster is. ‘Making the playoffs consistently’ is a damned hard thing to do now. A lot of people talk about it as if this were still 1990, when 16 out of 21 teams made the dance and you almost had to suck on purpose to miss.
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Just jumping in, but I think that's one of my problems with the team; their goal is making the playoffs.
And I can get where they are coming from. We hear how making the playoffs is the difference between a financially successful season or not. There's the belief that once you're in, anything can happen (see Montreal). But then look at Pittsburgh (Crosby, Malkin), Chicago (Kane, Toews), Tampa (Stamkos, Hedman), Washington (Ovechkin). Those teams owe their success to going through the rebuild and finishing at the bottom. Yes, Buffalo and Edmonton are certainly cautionary tales with that approach, and someone like Melnyk shows there are worse owners but I think I would prefer if they tried a true rebuild now instead of going for mediocrity.