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Originally Posted by ricardodw
That was the start of the Feaster Rebuild version 2.0. His first rebuild was signing Tanguay long term, Butler and Byron for Regehr, bringing in Cervenka, signing Babchuk as a UFA, Signing Stempniak as a UFA, bringing back Cammalleri, Bringing in Smith, signing Hudler and Wideman.
The direction of the the rebuild was all soft and skilled.
It wasn't driven home that this concept of building a small skilled team (could be labelled the Kevin Lowe plan) was never going to succeed until we saw Kipper being run at random and the team as a whole following the Bouwmeester's lead and skating off to an unoccupied corner.
McGrattan signing was a signal that Feaster rebuild 1.0 was over and a failure. There was no semblance of a McGrattan player in the flames organization.
When McGrattan joined the team and told Baertschi that he would seriously hurt anyone that messed with the young fellow it was seriously different than having Jackman willing to get beat up along with you.
I like the 2.0 rebuild. I like the fact that Horak who has gotten bigger and stronger is now too small and soft to be on this roster even with 3 injuries after playing 81 games on rebuild 1.0 as a 19-20 year old.
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To me it seems that you're basicly just calling everything a rebuild.
Suit yourself. But I think it kind of makes the term meaningless.