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Originally Posted by MarkGio
I think that's one way to doing it. Look at Vancouver, they have Baertschi, Virtanen and Horvat developing at the NHL level while having "over-the-hill" Sedins and Vrbrata hold the fans over who desire a competitive hockey club. It's rebuild on the fly vs. scorched earth. I think a rebuild is very much justified on what parts you have to build from.
I think to say there's only one way to rebuild a franchises core assets is naïve or arrogant.
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That's a very narrow way of describing the different rebuilds going on when there's a spectrum between the two choices. For example Buffalo would be a great recent example of scorched earth, and the Flames closer to the middle where top players were traded away but veterans used to tie the team over until the drafted prospects had more experience under their belt.
Right now Vancouver's on the fly attempt is merely attempting to accelerate and eliminate the in-between of waiting for prospects to be nhl regulars by trading off 2nd round picks in return for young incomplete projects. The margin for high end returns becomes much less.
There's definitely no right way to rebuild but you can certainly go about it in a poor way. Edmonton's scorching and salting the earth with poor culture, management and supporting cast is one. With Vancouver using middling 1st rounders and 2nds for last chance potentials aren't likely to give you career NHL players.