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Originally Posted by Jiri Hrdina
It's interesting to look at the Stars as well, as a team that has been similarly mediocre and update and down.
They had 5 straight years out of the playoffs from 2009 to 2013.
But they never really bottomed out drafting:
#8 - Scott Glennie
#11 - Jack Campbell
#14 - Jamie Oleksiak
#13 - Radek Faksa
#14 - Valeri Nichushkin
Classic example of a team not being bad enough to get the elite picks.
Since then they
2014 - Lost in Round 1
2015 - Missed
2016 - Lost in Round 2
2017/2018 - Missed
2019 - Lost in Round 2
2020 - Finals!
They never executed scorched earth but rather re-tooled some of the elements. They also got a high pick to get Heiskenen and he looks like a game changer.
But my point is they are an example of a team not executing scorched earth but rather just re-tooling and now they are in the finals.
Perhaps in a cap world you take your shots, as best you can, as long as you've got enough pieces in place.
Thinking out loud.
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Originally Posted by Flash Walken
The stars have drafted in the first round every since 2009, have picked multiple times in the 1st round twice in that span, and made 9 1st round selections in the top 15.
So just in the last 10 years they've 1) Drafted higher than the flames ever have and 2) drafted in the first round more than once more times than the Flames ever have.
1st round selection Denis Gurianov has 14 points in 15 playoff games this year.
So even if Supermatt is right about there being more than one way of doing things, the Flames aren't doing it the way the stars are, either.
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The Flames have to go scorched earth because they have spent picks with reckless abandon for the last 15+ years.
If the Flames had that kind of draft quantity they wouldn't have to go scorched earth either, but they don't, so they do.