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Originally Posted by alkurtz
The draft and player development will become even more important than it already is. To succeed long term and be competitive year after year it becomes essential to have a steady supply of young and cheap talent to plug in yearly. Fortunately, player development is one of the organizations strengths.
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Very, very on point. And here is the thing that pisses me off the most. Because THIS lockout is all about the smaller market teams. Those smaller market teams have not been as profitable. A lot of those same teams are ones that are not playoff teams. They then get the better draft picks, however, through either bad scouting or bad development or both, they continue to faulter, the team never thrives to attract fans, they don't make money. It is a trickle down effect. The talent pool has thinned out because of the 30 teams. And the smaller market teams don't put the right money or enough money into player development. Its stupid. We'll have another lockout in 8 years if contraction doesn't happen