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Originally Posted by Boreal
Lazy easy take setting up an arrangement for players to lose.
If building a team was about high picks Edmonton wouldn’t be a joke & the Sabres would have played a playoff game in the last decade.
Having Iginla as a resource is massive. He’s seen more players for a longer period of time who are eligible for the upcoming draft than any other person working in hockey, and it’s not even remotely close.
Between him & Conroy, they know what’s they’re doing.
Neither are losers so they would likely quit the minute they were told losing was ok, and that their playing to win “hubris” wasn’t acceptable.
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God, the Edmonton/Buffalo example every time rebuilding is brought up is so lazy. It's been said before but Buffalo is a rare example of a team that tanked and rebuilt through a draft BUT also had major ownership issues coming thru their first rebuild where they wouldn't re-sign guys or spend any more than cap basement teams. That team was going nowhere no matter how they drafted, which pushed them into a second rebuild with now stable ownership.
Edmonton are just completely stupid and had no idea how to pick players or build around good players that they did pick. 90% of management groups in the NHL would have built a perineal contender around McDavid, but it's Edmoton, they figured just pick up Adam Larsson and you're good to go.