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Originally Posted by Enoch Root
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
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Not sure I'd say empty cupboards; (Monahan, Brodie, Baertchsi, maybe Gaudreau & Gilles) but ya it's not like your starting with Crosby & Malkin or Ovechkin & Backstrom, or Toews, Kane & Seabrook! Gonna take a while though, even with Burke behind the curtain.