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Originally Posted by oldschoolcalgary
At this point, it's going to take more than moving one or two pieces and bringing in one or two pieces, which is how i defined 'retool'. This means still trying to move forward to try winning in the next couple of years.
Rebuilding suggests substantial changes which bring in younger less proven players (so not bringing in Hall, which is a retooling in order to win right away) where Calgary is going to drop in the standings the next few years and be a non playoff team.
At this point, there are some 'ledges' in the roster and it makes sense to me to tear it down to that bottom ledge, the Dubes, Tkachuks, Valimakis, Anderssons, Mangiapanes, Hanifins.
I'm pretty open to trading anyone at this point aside from Tkachuk, Vilimaki, Andersson and Dubes however.
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Agree to disagree.
Trade a few core pieces (likely have to take $ back in trades, stock up on a few high draft picks in the process.
Retool or rebuild, either way, we won’t be cup contenders in the next few years (we aren’t now anyways).
But I still want to put a team on the ice that we try to compete for a playoff spot. Playing to lose is no good.
There is no way I tell my team - we are just going to try lose for 3 years and hope we get some good players, because you guys aren’t good enough.
Good time to retool with the expansion draft coming. Try and get players back that you are not worried about protecting. Protect your younger core of guys you want to keep long term.
I am trying to sign Brodie and Hall. Trading Johnny, maybe Mony. Hopefully you don’t have to protect Luc or Gio in expansion draft. Protect younger core and build from there.