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Originally Posted by Blaster86
...Being a fan of a Canadian team is rough. We will constantly suffer because as fan bases we will never actually sit through a rebuild and support a team financially. So owners will never sit through a full rebuild, they'll always look for band-aids to try and eek into a 8 - 4th spot.
TL;DR: It's all our fault!
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I have come to accept this over the last few years, and find I am actually a much happier person as a result of this enlightenment. People who get irrationally angry and frustrated because their favourite hockey team is not building like they think they should strike me as fairly miserable. It is much better to accept that this is the culture: this is how it goes in Canada precisely because of what Blaster86 has pointed out above. The truth of the matter is this: a Canadian team is not going to win a Stanley Cup in the near future, and this because team owners and their managers are far too frequently too impatient to see through a proper rebuild to its completion.
It won't happen in Vancouver; not in Calgary; not in Edmonton (hahahahaha!); not in that other terrible city—the name of which I cannot remember; not in Toronto; not in Ottawa; not in Montreal. This is our lot—so why not just enjoy what we have? Glorious, exciting, dramatic, fast and intense professional hockey.