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Originally Posted by Toonage
I'm not absolving the Flames for being where they are, but the Canadian teams overall do a poor job of committing to rebuilds or applying the patience required. Its my belief thats why we won't have a Canadian cup champion until it changes. They hit on a touch of success and thats it, rebuild over. Trade the picks.
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Also hanging on to aging superstars when it's clearly futile. Iginla, Sundin, Sedins, Koivu.
Not sure you can fault the Oilers too badly for Smyth, and the Sens at least managed to salvage something for their best assets, though both of these teams had the benefit of falling off a cliff instead of a more gradual decline.
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Originally Posted by Toonage
I think a great example of how Canadian teams approach rebuilds was Toronto from several years ago.
"Pain" was what Babcock warned the fanbase with.
That lasted a season.
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TBF, it was a rebuild 2.0 have Burke pooched the first one. Too bad we didn't re-tool here.
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Originally Posted by ComixZone
I don’t disagree.
On the sample size, the game went through significant change after the 2005 lockout, so that’s how far I looked back.
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The first two years coming out of the lockout were crapshoot years as the system figured itself out, then the Wings/Pens years were an obvious transition of teams built pre-lockout vs. teams built post-lockout. IMO '08 is the right place to draw the line for the 'salary cap era'.