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Originally Posted by Bend it like Bourgeois
Meh.
Just tank and win lotteries!
Seems to me dude has been on the I’m only happy and vocal when everyone else is miserable bus for as long as this site has been around.
Tanking is the easiest, laziest, and most random path to success. It is not a plan.
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Accepting that you're having a down year and that your team doesn't have the pieces it needs long term to be successful isn't tanking though. Knee jerk reactions to salvage a season, or hanging onto assets hoping you might luck into a playoff position are even less of a plan than "tanking" is. Colorado got Mackinnon and Makar by accepting that they were having down year's and planning accordingly. Did it require some luck to get who they got? Sure, but they also trusted in their scouting and development enough that even if they ended up with different players they would still be adding to long term success. Last year Calgary kept clinging to the hope that they might make the playoffs, I'm not saying they missed on better offers, but they did miss on an opportunity to have more control over the player they get with their 1st pick in this year's draft! And I don't think any of the returns we got this year are worth more than having that luxury. Chicago came to the end of a bunch of contracts for players who helped make the Blackhawks a championship caliber team for years. They made trades to stock up on picks, they took on cap dump contracts to get prospects back. They timed all this around a generational player coming up in the draft. You can't tell me that wasn't planned, you can't tell me that them toiling away putting patches on the team in an effort to stay "competitive" is a better plan. They accepted where they were at realistically and made the best of it. There is no shame in the Flames accepting a down season or two and planning around that!