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Originally Posted by Bingo
He'd get more teams to look at if he adjusted the criteria to three top ten picks in 5 years and went from there.
Then the Oilers would move to failed, the Flames would have 2 picks of their three and this year would be the third, and their rebuild would be I guess on year old with June 2013 and Monahan being the start of the clock.
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The first sentence of your second paragraph probably explains why he used the criteria he did. It seems rather obvious that he went in with a conclusion in mind ("The Oilers rebuild is not yet failed") and found an arbitrary set of criteria that suits his purpose.
Though he did explain the Oilers without intending to:
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To start, it's important to distinguish between successful and unsuccessful rebuilds. Some teams are just run poorly and are really in a perpetual rebuild.
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No team exemplifies this statement like the Oilers over the last 20 years.