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Originally Posted by Enoch Root
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.
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I don't understand this point by Feaster / King (supposedly) at all. Yes it's fair, not good prospects, but the whole point would be there was an opportunity to move players like Iginla back in Sutter's time for much more value than we got letting it go on longer, and we'd likely have had some good prospects in the system.
That was the decision to be made, bolster the quality of our prospects, by getting good value for our veteran's. Spinning our wheels trying to make it work was the problem. If they'd moved Iggy and Co back then, we'd likely have the same (or similar) prospect quality we have now, plus some young players coming into their prime that we got back in those trades. We'd be deeper for the future and much closer to competing today than we are now.