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Originally Posted by aaronck
Boston never really did a rebuild- they just keep re-tooling on the fly- only missed the playpoffs a few times in the last- missed the playoffs in 2006 and 2007 and 2015/2016. They drafted Kessel, then traded him to the Leafs.
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They've also traded away Thornton and Kessel(-->Hamilton/Seguin) for essentially nothing. As others have mentioned, Tavares turned into nothing. I don't understand the reluctance to trade Gaudreau, hopefully for something better than those trades, but even if not, it isn't a guaranteed death knell.
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Originally Posted by Textcritic
Pretty much this. If we are projecting this team beyond this season then it doesn't make much sense to limit the data set to just this year with everything that has transpired. When 2018–19 is combined with 2019–20 the Flames are well within the top-ten teams in the League. If we are happy to consider last year as an outlier, then I see no reason why we should simply accept the current results as normative moving forward. All things being equal, the Flames fall somewhere between these results: not a top-five team in the NHL, but also better than a bubble team.
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Do we not include lsat April in this analysis? Is it not reasonable that it should be the most highly weighted data?
It seems to me that consecutive playoff appearance and/or actually being competitive in playoff series would be the bare minimum to graduate out of the 'bubble' zone? Is Columbus a bubble team, or no? Carolina? Winnipeg? Nashville? It's all semantics...I suppose it depends what you consider the next tiers/categories to be.
I struggle to get to top 10 though. WAS, BOS, TBL,
PIT, NYI, STL, COL,
VGK, DAL = 9 teams (
2 who you could argue against if strictly limited to 2 years) ...I have trouble putting us for sure ahead of the teams I list above...certainly in the mix, though.
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Originally Posted by jayswin
Tkachuk actually only has two years until he can decide to force himself to UFA with an arbitration award.
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It's also only 1 year until we can sign him to an extension.