Mattilaus
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http://www.thehockeynews.com/blog/if-sabres-are-tanking-who-could-blame-them/
apparently Enroth is a Bonafide No. 1 now....
apparently Enroth is a Bonafide No. 1 now....
the comments are hilarious
"If the sabres fire Nolan they will officially be the laughing stock of the league"
lolwut
Do the ends justify the means?
If the Sabres are contenders 5 years from now, do people look down on them for how they got their or will they gush over how they are built?
This tank/not-tank is making hockey people all around the world lose their ******* minds.
People are writing the craziest things to justify their opinions, right or wrong.
I get it. Our...rebuild...is kind of unique in its scope. We fell further harder than anyone. We stripped it down to acquire so many first and second rounders. Hell...we just traded for a great player who can't play this year. I think it's been a masterpiece. From adding vet leadership that we all knew didn't help them on the scoresheet to trading their goalie just as he was starting what looked like another hot streak way ahead of the deadline. I think Murray has had his finger on the pulse of this thing and played it perfectly.
So people will hate that. They never hate when you are bad at something...but they loathe you when you are good at it.
But, to be fair, it goes beyond that.
Murray *****ing about changing the lottery in the summer (even though I think he's completely right) is a bad look. Pegula hosting both McDavid and Eichel this season on his rink. I know it's about building a destination here...but it can come off as being arrogant about it. I also think they don't like us trading for Kane like the bottom feeding ****** sabres who are they to act like they can be good anytime soon.
And then there is the reason I really think people hate us. Us. Losing is supposed to be the worst. It's supposed to be the price you pay...suffering to get the reward of a prospect who...who knows...but a better prospect. And some people are. There are fans who are miserable and think it will never work...because nothing ever does here. But especially on the Internet...mostly sabres fans have been pretty cool with the losing. The hardest part hasn't been watching the sabres fail...it's that the oilers are still within striking distance. People hate that so many of us are happy.
So I get it.
And I will for the next 2 months. And I'll let them have their laughs when someone else wins the lottery...as we all know is the most likely result. I'll smile through when they tell me we "tanked" for nothing because all we ever cared about was McDavid and we lost hahahaha. And I will when the new season starts and our young team and new pieces go through the growing pains and falters more than succeeds.
Because the only thing that matters...is that at some point in the no longer too distant future...it's going to work.
And boy are they gonna hate that.
Zero ****s given about what the rest of the league and other teams' fans think about us tanking for McEichel. The end justifies the means...if there was zero chance our roster could make the playoffs then there's nothing lost by maximizing our draft value.
The reason the "tank" has become a big problem this year is because McDavid and Eichel are the two prizes. As much as fans of other teams don't want to admit it, it is the truth.
No one would be talking about this if it were a normal draft.
I want pragmatic and logical asset management from my GM.
What's worse, being last because of incompetent management and being stuck there or being last by design and with a plan to get out of it?