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<blockquote data-quote="ChiefGritty" data-source="post: 1897874" data-attributes="member: 746137"><p>And to be more specific, the entire season was built around tanking as aggressively as possible, with no effort being made to conceal that.</p><p></p><p>And with total success toward that goal a whisker away, it was choked away in excruciating fashion.</p><p></p><p>Modern savvy insider fandom asks you to treat the tank as a competitive enterprise. Well, to take that seriously is to be a brutally disappointed Blackhawks fan today.</p><p></p><p>To be a more traditionally oriented fan is to be an equally bewildered Blackhawks fan today due to the strange and quite sad coda to Jonathan Toews' legendary career.</p><p></p><p>It kinda doesn't matter what angle you come at it from (we needn't touch on the problems people of a progressive political bent have with the team leadership), this is a franchise that has gone from the toast of the town to aggressively alienating very quickly.</p><p></p><p>You can't be dynastically good forever. Things end. But now that we're here, it's a question of what the value proposition is for the fans.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="ChiefGritty, post: 1897874, member: 746137"] And to be more specific, the entire season was built around tanking as aggressively as possible, with no effort being made to conceal that. And with total success toward that goal a whisker away, it was choked away in excruciating fashion. Modern savvy insider fandom asks you to treat the tank as a competitive enterprise. Well, to take that seriously is to be a brutally disappointed Blackhawks fan today. To be a more traditionally oriented fan is to be an equally bewildered Blackhawks fan today due to the strange and quite sad coda to Jonathan Toews' legendary career. It kinda doesn't matter what angle you come at it from (we needn't touch on the problems people of a progressive political bent have with the team leadership), this is a franchise that has gone from the toast of the town to aggressively alienating very quickly. You can't be dynastically good forever. Things end. But now that we're here, it's a question of what the value proposition is for the fans. [/QUOTE]
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