Bullfrog
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princedpw said:bustaheims said:Nik the Trik said:It's tempting as a hockey fan to just ascribe a long run of bad results to "Columbus" or "Florida" but the reality is that every regime has it's own chance at doing things well. Hire a bad group, or make them follow bad tactics, and you'll burn three or four years. Hire a good group and things will turn around fairly quickly.
Yeah. The biggest difference between the successful rebuilds and the failed ones is the quality of the management team and their willingness (and ability) to completely bottom out as part of the process. With good management, teams hired scouts that found talent in the later rounds, made shrewd trades at the right time, found the unpolished gems in other teams systems, etc. That's how you rebuild successfully.
Are you sure good management is the key? Or is it luck? It is so hard to say. Im very tempted to believe there is some skill but an awful lot of luck.
I believe management is the key. Luck is involved in the drafting and development side, but good management increases the odds.