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Originally Posted by Mathgod
There will be a LOT of tanking teams this upcoming season. Getting a top 5 pick is a longshot. And then the odds are not in favor of that pick becoming a franchise player. So you're basically talking about liquidating the roster, plummeting attendance numbers, taking significant financial losses, and sucking for multiple years for maybe a 5-10% chance of landing a franchise player.
For the record I'm not against the idea of going into a rebuild per se, it's just that I don't see this ownership having any willingness to go down that road.
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It is not as big of a long shot as you think
Montreal went from a finalist to 1st overall
The Flames was a lottery team with a struggling Johnny and struggling Tkachuk
The Flames can be in deep lottery without Johnny and Tkachuk and probably an injured Tanev as well