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Originally Posted by Oling_Roachinen
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.
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And precisely none of them finished at the bottom deliberately. Pittsburgh did it because they were virtually bankrupt. Chicago was coming out of the last and worst years of ‘Dollar Bill’ Wirtz. Tampa had been gutted by meddling owners who ran out of money and had to sell. It isn't a thing any owner does by choice, and it's hardly legitimate to criticize a GM for not blowing up the business without permission.