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Originally Posted by TheScorpion
Planning to be bad at the right times is a necessity in today's NHL. Failing to do so in the name of respectability is just terrible strategy.
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I wouldn’t word it as “planning to be bad”.
The key is not unnecessarily adding players when you are bad. I don’t think the Avs or Lightning ever planned to be bad and the people associated with putting teams in those situations get replaced anyway.