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Originally Posted by Classic_Sniper
I honestly don’t care if Treliving stays or goes at this point. It’s Murray Edwards who needs to accept the idea of rebuilding. Maybe he doesn’t understand the NHL, but it should be a cyclical league.
You win for a while, then you lose for a while. Trying to constantly eek your way into the playoffs by any means necessary so you can make a couple of bucks isn’t how you build a contender.
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You assume without evidence that Edwards (and the other owners) are actually trying to build a contender. The way it looks to me, most of the Canadian owners are just trying to do well enough to keep the seats filled and avoid going into negative cashflow. That's at least a realizable business plan, though not a very bold one. Canadians are not known for being a bold people.
It's the U.S. owners (and not all of those) who treat their clubs as an extension of their egos, and are willing to lose buckets of money while their arenas sit empty during scorched-earth rebuilds for the chance of eventually getting their names on the Stanley Cup.
Maybe Edwards understands the NHL just fine, and you just don't understand Edwards.