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Originally Posted by ComixZone
I don’t buy this theory.
The Senators are a bad organization under poor management and poor coaching. The instability at an organizational level leads to poor results. Same issue with Buffalo and Edmonton sidelined those “rebuilds”.
Tanking/drafting at the top is inherently easy. Good management and staff is hard to obtain/develop and if you don’t have it you won’t build a good team regardless of where you draft.
Ottawa is only making things worse too - Smith was a bad coach, but naming Martin as interim head coach? Yikes.
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What you are saying about Ottawa can be said about the Flames. Those teams made coaching and management changes because they couldn’t shake the loser culture those teams embraced. There is not a team that embraced the tank that has turned it around quickly. If a tankbuild works it will take more than a decade and a lot of luck is required.
Toronto has one playoff round win in 20 years and you use them as an example of how a quick tankbuild can work? Calgary is a dangerous market to attempt this in because it ranks low in terms of desirability for players. I think Conroy is doing it right by refusing the tank so let’s hope he avoids the same short cuts Treliving took by trading a bunch of draft picks for veterans and he is able to make some smart choices with the additional capital he is going to continue to pick up.