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Originally Posted by ComixZone
I don’t really understand people opposed to tanking/rebuilding through the top of the draft.
This organization has been an absolute joke since 1989. One of the least successful organizations going on 30+ years.
We’ve never drafted top-3.
Are you just comfortable with perpetual mediocrity? So comfortable that you don’t want the team to try a different approach? I definitely understand not wanting to be a Buffalo/Edmonton/Arizona, but I also look at those teams as being horrifically managed (for various reasons) that hampered all of their “efforts”.
Yeah, tanking/rebuilding guarantees you absolutely nothing - but it gives you a chance at acquiring truly elite talent.
Yep, Tampa did great by drafting Vasilevskiy, Point, and Kucherov late in the draft - but without Stamkos and Hedman they don’t win anything.
You need top-end draft picks - after you get those picks, you have to be one of the best managed teams in the league to find success.
Without those top-end draft picks, even if you are one of the best managed teams in the league you still win nothing.
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Tampa won one of their cups with Stamkos missing almost the entire playoffs. Hedmen is key but the other 3 guys were far more crucial.
When a market like Calgary goes into the tank the risk is being the next Buffalo or Edmonton and it is more than a decade of being terrible and when those teams tanked they were guaranteed the 1st or 2nd pick and the way the lotto works now we are seeing the worst team get the 3rd or 4th pick quite regularly.
Buffalo still is mediocre and Edmonton is in year 8 of a generational player and have only been an average team.
Markets like Calgary that go into tank mode seem to end up for like Buffalo or Columbus than they do Chicago or Tampa. Calagary had 2 of their best drafted players push their way out after 6 and 8 years because they didn’t want to stay in this market despite being a top team last year.
You are right it is a path to take but it is very risky with longer pain and no guarantees of success or top 3 picks.