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Old 04-11-2023, 12:42 AM   #7314
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Originally Posted by GreenLantern2814 View Post
This team spends to the cap every year for no reason. They don’t need to spend $80M to finish 18th. They could spend $65M and be interesting with young cheap talent that people wanted to see grow and develop.

I don’t believe for a second that the attendance this season was better because they were in a playoff race up to game 81. This was a boring, unlikeable team that lost games in the first ten minutes at a rate not seen since 2001 era Mike Vernon.
I remember that Francis said on a podcast a few weeks ago that attendance at the Dome has already gone down. People are bored and frustrated with the current product on the ice, as they should be. I find it hard to believe revenue would’ve taken as baldy of a hit if they iced a rebuilding team instead of the maxed out cap team they decided to go with
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