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Originally Posted by TOfan
There are far more differences between those cities you mention than similarities. Chicago may have worse winters but I bet they’re about 2.5 months shorter. It’s also one of the largest cities in North America. There is very little to suggest these two, specifically, are similar in any way.
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Ok, great, so there is no other city exactly like Calgary, so we can do away with trying to find a comparable success story to try to emulate and just come up with a plan that works here. I know for sure that the 'try to be competitive every year and just get in' plan won't win any cups and also won't even get them into the playoffs more than half the time. And when they do get in, they get bounced back out pretty quick. That plan hasn't worked for the last 18 seasons (well, 19, because it didn't work this year either). There is no reason to think it will suddenly start working, so why not try something different. Actually commit to building through the draft. It might take a decade to see real results, but they weren't going to win anything substantial in the next decade anyway by using the plan from the last 19 years.