Chimaera
same ol' Caps
Leafaholix said:And some of those teams that are fighting to stay alive don't deserve Sidney Crosby.
Piss poor managing of players and money has led them to ****... and if it's gone on for so long, I don't see why they deserve a place in the NHL.
You're pretty much a joke when it comes to this. Crosby should go to the team that needs him the most. And if that's solved through a lottery or what have you, fine, that's the way it'll work. It is the only way that's fair.
How can you make the judgement that some teams "don't deserve Crosby"? Why would a playoff team, with tons of money, with a gigantic following, and a decent amount of talent 'deserve' Crosby more? The rich shouldn't get richer. And all the garbage about him not needing to go to an expansion team or a franchise without tradition is really a joke, what kinda league are you looking to support? I mean, Crosby has to go to a team that really needs a face and someone to create a spark of interest in that area. It's for that reason that a place like Chicago, NY, heck, Nashville, Washington (5th largest TV market), Carolina, Pittsburgh and so forth needs a player and rightfully deserves a player like Crosby to hopefully make the franchise successful.
It would be an interesting NHL some of you would imagine, if you had your way. It would probably end up being about 5 teams total.
And your jest about teams ending up where they are on purpose or through mismanagement is ill-founded. The Caps did break down what they had going, but pretty much every hockey analyst will agree it had to be done. A team wasn't winning, was losing 25million plus, was getting older, and had no real shot of getting better unless Leonsis spent another 20 million, had to be blown up.