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Originally Posted by MegaErtz
No, but allowing your best player to enter the final year of his contract when he can walk for nothing is not something winning franchises tend to do. We should have asked him where he wanted to go last summer and made a trade that got us something in return.
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You assume (a) that he had already made up his mind, and (b) that he would have told the truth. Also (c) that there was a deal to be made.
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The team was going nowhere this year and barely made it out of the first round against a terrible Dallas team.
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The team was 2nd in the league in goal differential, 1st in its division, and a favourite to make the conference finals. They lost to the Oilers, who also barely made it out of the first round against an equally bad L.A. team; and they lost because the players let the officials get in their heads and completely forgot how to check.
If you claim that you knew in advance exactly how this season would play out, you are the biggest liar I've ever met, politicians included.