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Old 03-02-2025, 09:24 PM   #1492
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Originally Posted by Jay Random View Post
No matter how badly you want there to be a strategy, there isn't one. There are things management can do to put their team out of contention, but there is nothing management can do to make the team win a Stanley Cup.

Paulie Walnuts was claiming that you can only draft top-5 if you deliberately tear down the team and do a scorched-earth rebuild. I gave a counterexample. I was not attempting to solve the general problem of how to win the Stanley Cup, because there is no general solution.
I think the difference is a tear down is deliberate and works. What happened with Colorado was just random luck. We should be operating deliberately based on statistical probability. Creating our own opportunities for luck not just hoping it happens by chance.
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