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Originally Posted by Igottago
The point is they need to aim directionally at that. If you don't think other organizations have done that, you're living in a delusion. You can't tell me with a straight face that Chicago didn't do everything possible to ice a team that got them a great shot at Bedard. Same with San Jose this season. This has been going on for years in the NHL. Its about fully embracing the down cycles and making the most of it.
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They traded Lindholm, Tanev, Hanifin, Zadorov, Toffoli… a handful of their very best players from the season before. They’re going to trade Markstrom and, possibly, multiple other players. They focused on acquiring young players and draft picks. They were one of the worst teams post-deadline.
What direction would people like them to go that the actual actions (not rumours, not hearsay, not “well we would have liked to do this other thing but we didn’t”) don’t indicate?