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Originally Posted by GranteedEV
Panarin, Saad, Toews, Muzzin, Toffoli etc. ELCs have no correlation to contending vs rebuilding.
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Yes, they absolutely do. The mistake that you are making is in assuming that the definition of "rebuilding" is arbitrary (as evinced by your silly employment of highly negligible "possession" metrics to determine the difference for you), and further that the dichotomy here is between "rebuilding" and "contending." A lot of teams will "rebuild" and never contend, while a handful of teams will contend and win even before their rebuild is complete. Every team in the NHL is perpetually "building" to the degree that every team is always working to get better. "Rebuilding" assumes a lot more than mere incremental improvement, and has everything to do with the collection of core players that a team will identify as part of their long-term plan. The development of core players which takes place primarily during ELC status thus has a direct correlation to the state of a team's rebuild.