[Caged Great]

Usually tear down rebuilds take 5 years from start to perennial playoff team. So if you push that ahead from 2012-2013 that would make it the 2017-2018 season give or take.

Last year was an aberration. An awesome aberration, but it was something that wasn't likely to be repeated. The surprising thing is that the Flames are not far off where they were offensively last year. If they address the goaltending we'll be fine.

If Calgary gets one of the Fins and throw them on the first line, then we'll probably be ahead of schedule and could very well start making the playoffs consistently as soon as next season. We aren't that far off, it all depends on the other moves that need to happen.

Chicago and LA had their first year of no playoffs in 2003 and were back in by 2008 and 2009 and their tear downs were more extensive than ours was because we already had Gio, Brodie, Backlund, Gaudreau, and Jankowski in the organization by the time we started our tear down. Those teams had pretty much nothing.

Just have to be patient. Getting Pollock and Shinkaruk was huge this deadline in addition to the 2 top 60 picks.