List of Cup winning teams since 2010:
2010 Chicago Blackhawks
2011 Boston Bruins
2012 Los Angeles Kings
2013 Chicago Blackhawks
2014 Los Angeles Kings
2015 Chicago Blackhawks
2016 Pittsburgh Penguins
2017 Pittsburgh Penguins
2018 Washington Capitals
2019 St. Louis Blues
2020 Tampa Bay Lightning
2021 Tampa Bay Lightning
Every one of those teams had at least one "Eichel" - or, a "really elite player" - (Kane, Bergeron, Kopitar, Kane, Kopitar, Kane, Crosby, Crosby, Ovechkin, O'Riley, Kucherov, Kucherov).
My thinking on this is that, if the teams that are winning Cups all have an Eichel and we can't be bothered to ever draft high enough to pick an Eichel, and we can never pull off a trade to acquire an Eichel, and we can never sign an Eichel or "refuse to go over an internal individual player cap" to even be able to pay an Eichel...
Then, I mean, wtf are we even doing? Like, stop blowing smoke up my ass with this whole "our goal is to win a Cup" BS, and just tell me the truth: even with a salary cap, we're still just a small market team who's never really going to be able to compete with anyone - not because we can't, but because we won't.
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