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Originally Posted by howard_the_duck
Edmonton got three in a row, right? Or 3 in 4 years? Their sucking in the first place wasn't part of a bigger plan, but surely the continued nature of it had something to do with the patience of seeing through the youth movement.
Hell, they did an 'Oil Change' documentary. There had to have been alignment on some level of changing the core through the draft.
Now, that rebuild was a failure until they got McDavid, but at least demonstrates there was a commitment to losing before the resurgence.
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This is revisionist history
They did everything they could to get better but sucked an won lotteries...lotteries with adjusted odds because of their sucking helped them.
Heck Oilers were trying to trade for players like Danny Heatley but he refused