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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 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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This is what I’ve been thinking as well. Iirc ownership finally got on board with using the word rebuild around 2014, and 2015 was supposed to be our bottoming our year, and pre-season predictions had us competing for a McDavid shot. Instead, we overachieved more than we have in decades and led to management thinking we were ready to exit the rebuild. And here we are now, with a solid cast of players, but a player on the Matthews/mcdavid/mackinnon level sure would be nice.
I also wonder what would have happened had steve begin not scored 2 goals in the twilight of the 2013 season, if backstrom hadn’t shut out the wild, etc, but that’s not too constructive.