The reason they couldn't get rid of Thornton and Marleau to start a re-build is that they wouldn't waive their no trade contracts. That they are where they are isn't from good planning, it's just making the best of what they have although that it's turned out well may change some GMs thinking.
I think San Jose was built right in the first place with good drafting, good trades and didn't mortgage the future like happened in Calgary. Looking back we haven't gotten anything much from trading Iginla and Bouwmeester, we'd have probably been better off keeping them except that it made the owners get onside with building a team the right way.
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