Frankly I have always been anti-tank, and said it was embarrassing to cheer for losses.
However, the way this league is set up, tanking is incentivized.
If Johnny walks, I would be perfectly happy to trade all the big pieces - Markstrom, Hanifin, Andersson, Lindholm, Tkachuk, etc, and then tank hard.
You ain't winning the Cup without Johnny, so you may as well tank and build your team over again. You may end up like Buffalo, or you may end up like the Pens or Avs.
If you don't tank, you end up like... well, like Calgary.
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