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Originally Posted by Otto-matic
Here's the thing.
Did Colorado blow up their team when they got bounced a couple years ago?
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After they won their division in 2014 and were upset in the first round of the playoffs? Absolutely they did. They let Paul Stastny walk, traded Ryan O'Reilly and Matt Duchene, and hurt themselves over the long run by trying to fill gaps in their lineup with dead weight like Blake Comeau and the retirement tours of Jarome Iginla and Alex Tanguay. It wasn't until after they went through another few years of crap, drafted Rantanen, and jettisoned the dead weight on their roster into the sun that they improved.