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Originally Posted by Jiri Hrdina
The desire to re-build wasn't isolated to a few posters that are now pretending like they were smarter than everyone else. There was pretty wide belief that the team SHOULD re-build. However, there was also recognition that it was not likely to happen including due to lack of support from ownership.
So a lot of folks evaluated the trade with that in mind, instead of ignoring those realities completely.
It's easy to say a team should re-build if you choose to completely ignore the role that ownership plays in allowing for that.
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It's interesting as I mentioned something in a similar vein this morning in the attendance numbers thread.
Ownership has always had this overwhelming opinion that on ice quality = butts in the seats, and to throw a poor team out there is tantamount to suicide. But the attendance numbers in the cap era do not seem to match at all to team quality. So that assumption is likely antiquated and wrong. Instead, superstars (largely only available in the top few picks of any draft) seem to drive attendance, but ultimately the base attendance depends on how much available income is left and ticket price index. In short, it is likely a good play in the current era to try and acquire a superstar, and once you have one to pay basically anything to ensure they stay. The best way to acquire a superstar is to suck REALLY bad for 3 ish seasons.