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Originally Posted by Enoch Root
Yes, I know. But it's a second hand quote.
The point is what matters: if your costs are fixed, and your revenues are down, the math goes bad.
And this tracks with Maloney's comments about them being able to use some of the players they've traded away - they look at Ws as revenues. That is wildly shortsighted, and arguably flat out wrong. But here we are.
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I think that was just a whole separate statement, and really a nothing burger. Maloney was saying "if we had some of those better players, we wouldn't be in last". That's probably true, but I don't think it's deeper than that. I don't even think it's a wish that they did have those guys.
I agree Murray Edwards is likely concerned about ticket sales, especially two years from now. I would be too. But he's a sharp enough guy to know that mkaing the POs this year is an impossibility and that it's hard to predict that an expenditure this year will mean ticket sales in two years.
All that analysis could lead to is maybe the mistake of thinking this rebuild could be faster than most. You could see where thinking that you already have a stud goalie, a potnetial game break defenceman, a potential stay at home defenceman, a potential strong winger in Gridin and then adding a couple blue chippers in the next two years would short circuit a rebuild, like getting Toews and Kane did for Chicago. That would be wildly optomistic but if you told me that was the thinking, it's more plausible.