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Originally Posted by Rhett44
People have weird narratives around here too.
I have seen people claim that the Dallas method works because they are a contender year after year, but they have come close and never won a cup.
Then these same people will say Edmonton shows that tanking doesn't work. Yet Edmonton has had the same success as Dallas, won a bunch of playoff series but never won the cup.
You can't have it both ways. Either they both are contenders or they both are not.
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The saving grace with Edmonton is their terrible management which led to their continued string of picking 1st overall. They didn't purposefully tank, they just ended up there. McDavid probably has a few cups if the Oilers' management wasn't so terrible.
San Jose vs Chicago will be interesting to watch. San Jose fell into their rebuild and Chicago tried to tank for Bedard.