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Originally Posted by dissentowner

Conroy has said the goal is the playoffs, multiple times. Go watch his pressers after the season.

Playoffs are always the goal. There wasn’t much to the immediacy of that said goal. A lot of his quotes are around keeping a competitive mindset and ‘fighting’ for a playoff spot.

Spoiler!

Wherever you do pick, you have to make the best pick you can. To be at the very bottom, that’s a lot of pain. And the one thing you don’t want to do, you never want to accept losing because you can’t just tell a team, “Now we’re going to turn it on and win” with people who’ve gotten used to losing. For me, that doesn’t work.

Craig Conroy told me today this is a retool. This isn’t taking it down to the studs. He wants this team to continue fighting for a playoff spot. He doesn’t believe in tanking and doesn’t think losing is ok. He doesn’t want the kids to think losing is ok.

If you really think it’s playoffs or bust then the bet should be that Markstrom isn’t traded.