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Originally Posted by MarkGio
Yeah I got my year wrong. But even 2011-12 there wasn't any prospects in the system to justify a rebuild.
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Huh? A rebuild isn't justified by prospects. A rebuild is called for when you are intellectually honest and realize that your best players are declining and/or close to retiring (Kiprusoff) and that you need to trade them now to acquire good prospects to jumpstart the rebuild so it doesn't take 7-10 years. Doing this helps you by acquiring the prospects and picks from trading your best players while also making your team worse which makes your own 1st rounder more valuable and more likely to land your next franchise player. Feaster arguably did this a year too late and arguably failed to get good value for Iginla. It's unclear how much he had his hands tied by ownership but then he shouldn't be spouting off about intellectual honesty and selling off players if it was an empty threat.
It's like you have it backwards. You don't start a rebuild when you have good prospects. You rebuild when your team can't contend anymore and now you need to acquire good prospects.
Somehow I get the feeling we aren't going to agree on much lol.