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Originally Posted by dissentowner
When we won the Pacific 3 years ago this place had half the activity it does now, many of the doomsday posters were missing in action the majority of the year, at least until the Oilers beat us. Then they magically made a return. There is no doubt in my mind there is a good portion of the fan base here that is only happy when things are going bad.
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Most of the negative fans have just wanted a true rebuild since the Iginla era though...as they believe that's how you build a winner.
And as much I think there are other ways to build winning teams...doing a scorched earth rebuild with lots of early picks seems to be the most effective way.
And the thing is even if you fail like the Oilers V1 and Sabres V1 rebuilds, if you suck long enough eventually you fall backwards into enough talent to have a strong base to build upon.
Its the teams that try to stay relevant that tend to just get stuck in mediocrity forever.