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Originally Posted by Erick Estrada
It's essentially being forced on the Flames but instead of embracing it, they are trying the retool method.
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Nobody has been able to point to a single thing they have done that supports this idea. The only thing they can say (and keep saying, over and over and over) is that Conroy won't use the word ‘rebuild’. That. Means. Nothing.
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I disagree about the goal of most owners is to make money. It's a hobby for most of them and it's only teams like the Flames and Jets as far as I can see that try to run their teams like a for profit business.
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You're dead wrong about that.
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The reality is that even if they don't make money on a year to year basis (usually cooked books for tax purposes),
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Governments employ thousands of revenue agents to make sure that taxpayers don't cook their books. And in this case, the NHLPA employs a bunch of lawyers and accountants to make sure the owners aren't lying about their revenues. That dog won't hunt.
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the ascending value of the organizations totally negates those losses.
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There is another old saying that most people today don't seem to know: ‘Trees do not grow up to the sky.’ There is no asset in the universe whose value is going to go up forever.
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Rich billionaires wouldn't be lining up to buy NHL teams if there was any risk of money loss associated with ownership.
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I thought you said they were in it as a hobby and not to make money? So much for that idea.
Pick a lane.
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Say what you want about Katz but he's been willing to do whatever it takes to win a cup and now he's in the Stanley Cup final. It's the stark difference between Flames and Oilers ownership.
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Hot_Flatus has already answered this one, but you're a lunatic if you think Katz did the right things. Hiring every Oilers alumnus from the glory days instead of competent hockey people? Having a scouting department that notoriously fails at picking good prospects if they're not on the cover of the Hockey News? Picking the sort of GMs who traded Taylor Hall for Adam Larsson one for one, and then Larsson for nothing, one for zero?
The biggest reason the Oilers are in the Cup finals is that the lottery balls fell their way in 2015 – right after the league changed the lottery rules specifically to decrease the chance of that happening. Katz deserves no credit for that.