re: Is there a franchise in sports that over performs more than the Tampa Bay Rays?

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Golden knights were given every chance to be good. Unlike all other teams in sports who expansion Atlanta might still be in Atlanta if they wer given the keys to be a good team from the start

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I think they kind of caught lightning in a bottle where they had:
1) GMs who hadn’t done an expansion draft in a cap league, who made some incredibly poor deals
2) An area that embraced their first pro franchise and then used sport as part of the healing process post Vegas shooting
3) incredibly competent and ruthless Gm/owner who set a high standard of winning with very little loyalty to anyone who didn’t help achieve that end goal