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Originally Posted by Mattman
15th consistently is much different than a Chicago or Pittsburgh where you're 30th for a while then dominate the league for 10 years.
I think most people could settle for the highs with a cost of some lows.
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Nobody was ‘30th for a while’. I can only think of one team that ever finished dead last three years in a row. Pittsburgh got Crosby by pure luck, and Chicago had a long stretch of futility before they got their #1 overall pick. Before 2010, their last Stanley Cup win was in 1961!
For that matter, the Flames over the period we're discussing finished as high as 2nd and as low as 27th, which is a far cry from ‘15th consistently’. You're setting up a battle between two straw men and cheering for the one whose straw is stuffed in less evenly.