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Originally Posted by mrdonkey
What's missing is commitment and willingness to rebuild properly and quit with this rebuild-on-the-fly/re-tool nonsense. The bottoming out period did not produce a winning core, both because it was too short, did not result in any significant picks on the level of Matthews/McDavid/Laine, and the players that were acquired (i.e. Bennett, Monahan) did not progress as much as was hoped.
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That might be it. I was prepared mentally for the full rebuild after Iginla was traded, but we never quite bottomed out in a way that solidified a winning core. Monahan and especially Gaudreau (someone we got in a late round before the rebuild) are very good, but it doesn't seem to be getting us there.
Is the solution to do a proper rebuild around a few existing young players like Tkachuk, Valimaki, Hanifin and go scorched earth with the rest to gain a buttload of picks and high end prospects? Being a young league, seems like a rebuild like that with a couple really high picks can happen pretty fast. I dunno - maybe things turn around with this group and that would be a major overreaction.