[ComixZone]

In my eyes, Canadian organizations just need to be run better.

The Maple Leafs look like a well run organization. They won their lottery, they built a good team around their prized 1st overall player and they're in the playoffs every year. They're consistently giving themselves a good shot at winning it all - the playoffs are hard and you need things to go "right".

The Oilers won a bunch of lotteries they were involved in, but continued to be mismanaged to all hell with moronic decisions made all over the place. No one to blame in their failures outside ownership. An owner who has hired terrible GMs, who have hired terrible coaches, and have generally just been terrible. In my eyes they're turning things around, but they were so mismanaged that they've blown nearly a decade of Connor McDavid's career. This is the owner hiring bad managers. If/when McDavid and Draisaitl leave, I don't think they're leaving for City/location reasons - I think they'd leave because they can't win with that management/ownership.

Winnipeg seems to me like a team that had a plan once upon a time, but their window for contending closed years ago and they're not adapting. They're being stubborn and trying to just sneak into the playoffs. Poor management, maybe due to poor ownership beliefs.

Calgary and Vancouver are pretty much identical to me. Impatient from the top down. No big picture view, just trying to scramble their way into the playoffs every year. I think we're seeing Ottawa enter this grouping as well.

The Canadiens are in a rebuild and seem to be doing it right...but we'll see if they get impatient and join Vancouver, Calgary, and Ottawa and begin to make short sighted transactions.