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More teams have failed "tanking" than have succeeded. It's a lot harder to do with the cap because you have to spend to the cap floor. Plus GM's don't have 5-7 years to "tank" and still have a job. The ones that have suceeded in the past were not really "tanking" like Pittsburgh or Chicago, both had ownership/building/revenue issues that caused the drop in standings. It wasn't a GM dumping all his best players to draft early and start a "5 year plan".
It isn't easy to win a Cup but tanking is a "better" plan then praying and hoping some mid round picks pan out.
If Bergevin came out and said his goals were to have home-ice advantage to start the playoffs and build a balanced team I could live with that instead of what he says.