[Joborule]

I only believe a rebuild/blow it up approach is necessary when you realistically have peaked in performance, have diminishing assets that aren't going to hold value for the team much longer, and you don't have a strong set of prospective piece coming through the pipeline. At that point you don't really have much of a choice since the natural trajectory is going to be downhill. But if you do have some young assets that can be part of the team for the long term, you can work around that, and move piece that aren't in the long term plan to bring in more future assets.

Retool is more what I think is ideal for majority of cases, since you're building on foundation.

Problem with the Flames is that if you're gonna do a rebuild, you need to commit to the patience in doing in, and don't rush things. Trust the process as Treliving would say. However, he didn't follow his own advice, and sacrificed the process of the rebuild to accelerate things quicker. As a result, some of those moves (namely Hamonic) didn't pan out in the players staying long term, and loss of rebuild capital wasn't replaced.