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Originally Posted by Fighting Banana Slug
Not so sure I would pick Chicago as the tanking poster boy. Yes, they are tanking, but only after an inexplicably dumb trade for Seth Jones, after which they gutted the team of DeBrincat, Dach, and Kane. Draft picks are nice, but they have a horrible team (and I could be wrong on this) not much in the pipeline other than picks. If they don’t get Berard, I would think they have at least 5 years of misery. Even if they luck out, it could still be a really long haul.
Edit: And most importantly, they were pretty terrible before the full on tank. This wasn’t giving up on a mediocre team.
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Which is why tanking was their only reasonable move.
They were already terrible.
They have a decent prospect pool.
And Bedard is not the only gem available this year.