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Originally Posted by PaperBagger'14
I dont want a rebuild again. Its simple, I dont see anything positive to come from it.
When I joined this board, we were beginning our rebuild. We tore the old guard down, traded off all of our assets for futures and were fully expecting to suck for 3+ years. What did we get out of that?
The Bouwmeester and Iginla trades were big fat flops, our highest draft pick in that era will never be a top line player on a contender, and we had a few saving grace mid round picks. This is all on management and has shown how incompetent they have been. I have 0 faith that this group should be leading the flames, from the owners to the coaching staff, especially through a rebuild. #### Treliving for handcuffing us to Ward and Gulutzan.
The only difference between now and 2013 is that I actually was sad to see Iggy leave. If we blew this team up, I couldn't give 2 ####s less about any singular player on this team. The only reason I wouldn't blow it up is that everyone leading them sucks at their job.
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The problem then was they waited far to long to rebuild. They had no assets worth trading at that point. Bouwmeester was about it and Feaster blew that one. The reason you rebuild now is because you actually have a surplus of good assets that could bring back valuable pieces for the future. Of course this franchise will never do that so will wait a few more years until we're back to where we were with the Iginla Era. Gaudreau has left, Gio is worth nothing, Backlund is worth nothing, Monahan and Tkachuk are in their final year, Hanifin has only 2 years on his deal left. This is all basically a season away. Just blows my mind management can't see the writing on the wall. Where does the reluctance come from? The on ice product is terrible and only getting worse. Do what the Rangers did and release a statement and turn the thing around proactively.