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Originally Posted by Tinordi
This is very good news.
Stories of the Senators and Leafs should be front and center here. Their young players gelled, played well and made the playoffs. Then they regressed. The Leafs drank the kool-aid and stocked up like they were emerging into a contender. The Senators stocked up to a lesser extent adding Ryan but have been more measured to their youth-fueled success.
The Sens are still at least a year away, they're on the 5 year rebuild plan almost to a letter, you should look up that franchise's trajectory since 2011. Expected to finish in the bottom of the league, made the playoffs surprisingly from the youth movement, eeked out some more success the next year, then miss the playoffs for probably two straight years including this one.
Rebuilds are generally non-linear unless you draft a couple franchise players in quick succession. They take time and patience and above all commitment to the franchise 3-5 years from now not 3-4 months from now.
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Hate the comparison (I've been seeing it a lot). Making the playoffs in the east is not even close to making it in the west. Not to mention that was a 48 game season
If the Flames make the playoffs this year they are pretty legit