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Originally Posted by TrentCrimmIndependent
You nailed this. And it's not hate, it's just straight facts.
Contrary to VillageIdiot's post, this is actually the comment that should be pinned, if any.
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No one is asking the Flames to make questionable drafting decisions, horrible trades and repulsive UFA signings.
All that's being asked is for us to get a chance to draft players like McDavid or Draisaitl, which happen more often than not at the top of the draft.
To counter that hope by saying the Edmonton model is an awful model or not a model at all is completely missing the point. No one is defending Edmonton's model here. In fact, the idea of Edmonton's model was only brought up by people trying to tear it down as a model to replicate, which again, wasn't what the argument was originally about.
To then point to the Florida, Colorado and Tampa teams as models to follow is incredibly ironic because they were also examples of teams who tanked for elite talent and are now good as a result of that, which was the whole point.