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Originally Posted by Monahammer
It might have been just luck if they did it once, but instead they did it for like 10 straight years. Obviously it was flawed, but it resulted in them getting the two best offensive players in the league, who are capable of dragging an absolute dog #### roster to the cup finals, even when managed by drunk buffoon who actively make the roster worse around them.
It wasn't just luck, they purposely sucked for a long time and they were rewarded. I reject that this was just an aw shucks bumble.
I never said I would rather cheer for the oilers, but i find it harder and harder to reasonably counter or even jaw at the oilers fans I'm around these days. I can't rely on scum of the earth stuff only. Regular season is worthless. Their losing decade is further away. I hope they don't win the cup this year but either way its been basically impossible to talk down on them without seeming like a hopelessly moronic Homer.
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By the time they drafted McDavid they were well past the point of sucking on purpose.
It wasn't a plan.
I have respect for organizations that make a series of smart decisions to build their teams. Let's contrast the Oilers and Panthers. Yes the Panthers had a couple high picks but their championship roster was built with good drafting (Barkov, Lundell, etc), smart trades (Tkachuk, Sam, Reinhart, Montour) and good free agent signings.
The Oilers tripped over backwards to drafting a cheat-code of a player. And could win it all despite making horrible decisions every year.
If the plan is to finish at the bottom, win the lottery and do so when a player of McDavid's quality happens to be available - that's not a plan at all.