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Originally Posted by Zevo
You don't want the kids to get destroyed though. They need to develop properly. Just look north for that example. They are sooo no good.
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Originally Posted by Enoch Root
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Yes it does because if you ride your horses to the end, you're going to have a scorched-earth rebuild and are likely to get better quality picks. If you rebuild sooner, you probably don't dip as deep. In the end, there is really no way of knowing in advance which would be a quicker rebuild (and the outcome is likely similar) so why not take one more shot with the vets?
Not saying it's a better way to go, but it is certainly understandable because there are no guarantees of a faster rebuild either way.
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Originally Posted by codynw
No you don't. Lots of teams get great players later in the draft. And no, I'm not talking about the incredibly slim chance of a player Datsyuk in the 7th round.
Giroux - 22nd overall
Kopitar - 11th overall
Getzlaf - 19th overall
Perry - 28th overall
Being a bottom team makes it a lot harder to miss, but you certainly don't need to be a bottom team to find top players.
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My point is, when deciding to rebuild or not, what does it matter how good your young players are?? We still had the option to keep the good vets then like we have now. What's the difference if either our old players or young players are no good?? The Flames are still no good at the end of the day. Not only that, but some of the vets were the wrong ones to have around for the young guys at that time.
Holding off like King/Feaster did damaged the Flames two fold. They received less of a return on their prized pieces, and also delayed the inevitable for 2 years. I get you want the right guys so we aren't like the Oilers, we still have Gio/Glenncross/Cammy (up until this summer), just like they did back then. This decision was costly in just the fact of the value we lost in 2 years of Iginla.
I also get there is the slim chance of hitting these home runs late in the first round, the Flames scouting hasn't proven to me they can do that. The recent picks (Porier and Klimchuk) look okay but they are a ways away from determining if they are Giroux/Perry/Getzlaf calibre. I'm not holding my breath they reach that high of potential. I'll take the higher probabiliy of the Bennett and Monahan picks any day.
I'm with Brent on this one, it was time back then.