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Originally Posted by Textcritic
It is an easy sell for a year our two or three. But rebuilds are long, arduous, often plagued by more steps back than steps forward, and fans as a group are far, FAR more impatient than your average CalgaryPucker.
There are certainly fans out there who won't pay for this, but I think you are drastically over-rating the more casual, less-invested fans, which form a much larger and more valuable segment of the market.
That is a big part of it, but not all of it. Success in the NHL takes a very long time, often proceeded through fits and starts, and requires a judicious sampling of luck. It is a near impossibility to plan on being bad enough at the right time, and then to attain the right odds in the right draft to select the right player. Pittsburgh did not plan to draft Sidney Crosby. Washington did not plan to draft Alex Ovechkin. Tampa did not plan to draft Victor Hedman. They were all incredibly fortunate to add these players when they did for free.
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Appreciate the response, I respect that POV. I guess what I'm getting at is you at least have to adopt the right philosophy from the outset and stick with it. What I see in Calgary (IMO) right now is a GM who doesn't think more than one season ahead and doesn't seem to have a plan to escape this holding pattern. It's not acceptable to keep doing the same stuff over and over, tinkering mostly on the fringes of your roster, and actually expecting different results. Fans are a mix of angry and apathetic mostly. Hope has largely left the building. Soooo... how do you fix that?
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