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Originally Posted by Wronskian
While thats true, they have finished last (or 2nd last) three years in a row. Rebuilding/retooling properly shouldn't require being that bad three years in a row. I understand there is a strong element of luck involved and the Oilers have been unfortunate with injuries and weak goaltending the last three seasons. Additionally I'm not an uber oilers hater, just using them as an example, you could insert Columbus, Florida or NYI in that comment.
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I would roll the dice on being really bad for 2 or 3 years. The problem with most of the teams that did not have success through a rebuild was that they were not bad enough. The teams that were really bad: Ottawa in the 90's, Colorado in the late 80's, Pittsburgh in the mid 2000's, Chicago in the mid 2000's actually had some success. There are a couple teams (Atlanta and NYI and to a lesser extent Columbus) that did not have success, but historically it has been a pretty decent model.
If I had my way they would trade most of their assets for prospects and picks on April 3rd. Over the summer they would go out and try to do a quick rebuild like Ottawa/Montreal through UFA. But I would not give out NMC's or NTC's because if the quick rebuild does not work I would do the same damn thing at the next trade deadline.