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Originally Posted by pikester
- Islanders are on their 3rd major rebuild since the early '90's; the latest beginning around early 2007 with Smith/Snow. Their lastest rebuild is in year 6-7.
-St Louis started rebuilding in 2007 with Davidson & the rebuild could be considered finished in 2012. 5 year rebuild.
-Boston could be argued to have started their latest rebuild in 2005 when they traded Thornton until @ 2010 when they finally showed to be a legitimate playoff threat which would be a 5 year rebuild.
-I won't even dicuss Pittsburgh as a comparable, most organisations don't get the kind of opportunities to draft ( then properly develop) generational franchise players like they did in those years!
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And even if they didn't have the budget to do more in the earlier years, Chicago had acquired many of their pieces through years of sucking prior to the last phase of the rebuild.
And unlike many (all?) of the teams listed, the Flames are starting from a position of completely empty cupboards
Edit: I should say they started to restock the empty cupboards a couple years ago. Regardless, it takes years to go from empty to cup contender status