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Originally Posted by Rhett44
Here is where I am at with the ruining the tank thing:
Is it good to keep winning right now? Technically, no it would lower our odds to get a top 3 pick if we keep winning. That being said, I'm not going to focus on the negative.
We are winning because our young players are stepping up. Wolf has been great lately and Cooley was tonight. Gridin looks like our most talented forward. Coronato is on fire and playing way better. Frost is stepping up big time since the Kadri trade. Parekh has been night and day compared to the beginning of the season and keeps improving. Bru has looked great. Gross was winning faceoffs and did not look out of place.
It is one thing to be negative when you have a bunch of vets winning us games who aren't in the long term plans. But legit all of our young players are playing great right now. How can I possibly be mad at that?
Things will even out during the rest of the season. We will lose lots of games because of the talent level after all the trades. But I think we can be happy with what we have seen lately.
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I think it shows that the locker room is mentally healthy despite how tough the season was for the most part. In order to truly tank like how the Canucks have where they barely give an eff anymore, you need to have some locker room issues, which is not something you ever want because it's a hard thing to get rid of. Short of trading for a locker room cancer who could demoralize the young players, I think Conroy did everything he could to try and improve the lottery odds. There also seems to be some accidental addition by subtraction happening after trading some of the veterans.