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Originally Posted by Bend it like Bourgeois
I respect your opinion but am not sure what’s harsh.
They’ve thrown in the towel and are deliberately trying to get worse.
Surrender is not a strategy. Maybe it’s all they have left.
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By definition, a rebuilt is trading vets and current assets to de-emphasis short term winning in favor of long term competitiveness. You can't rebuild without "throwing in the towel". That's a retool, which most of us are very sick of.
Tanking, in the old sense, is throwing games. Playing to lose. Get the EBUG into a couple of games, maybe take a couple shots of bourbon before suiting up, making a play to get scored against. Facetious though I may be, some of us are old enough to remember games like this. It's also trading players for no return other than to lose. Tanking for Lemieux back in the day. Two teams on the ice, desperate not to win the last game of the season.
Flames aren't doing this. They play to win, every game. That's the culture built into them. They aren't trying to lose. But the trading of current assets for future makes them a worse team, and they start to lose. But they NEVER play to lose.
You want to see that - watch a Vancouver game.