I think a rebuild is a lot more fluid an idea, across a range of stages, than a simply black or white question. I think we've all but moved out of the phase where we sell players for picks, but we're not yet in the "win now mode" where you sell picks for players.
As far as being at the cap, certainly we'll remain very close to the limit. But we also have some "bad" contracts coming off the books soon, and that's money that can be used in a variety of ways. So things are far from being done. I heard the same tune, I think, at the beginning of the year: what you see is what we have. Meanwhile our goalie situation has changed quite dramatically.
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