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Originally Posted by Tyler
I actually think that's a really interesting comment about 'our young players weren't good enough to rebuild'. That's an extremely logical and smart comment. If you have a bunch of high 20's prospects who are duds, a guy you can't sign and not a ton of talent on the farm, you actually probably are better off relying on older guys and FA's.
Having Monahan, Baertschi, Gaudreau and Bennett, etc in our system now makes a rebuild far more sense and potentially successful.
On the Iginla topic.. everyone seems to want to throw him under the bus now that he's gone. But that could also be because he had such an aura here that no one ever dared question or challenge him. Anyways, it sounds like both he and the organization made the right decision
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Agreed.
If there were a few solid kids in the system, a team might be more inclined to turn the page and start to build around them.
However, with nothing on the farm, might as well ride the vets for all they've got and see if you can find magic. Because once you turn the page, it's going to be full rebuild, regardless.
I am also not surprised that Butter wanted to rebuild - I never felt (from day 1) like he believed in the players that he had.