With how quickly this fanbase had turned on Tkachuk I have zero confidence there is patience to go through the necessary rebuild these same fans claim to want. The guy went from future captain to must trade for a bunch of you due to 50 games. I don’t see how that same fan can be patient to sit through more than 5 years of being the joke of the league.
This team was in their rebuild in 2013-2016 basically 4 seasons. They stripped it down in 13 and started to spend picks on older players in the summer of 16. In the 2018/19 season they had 5 picks in the top 6 of the draft in their tank years. Lindholm and Monahan from 13, Bennett from 14, Hanifin from 15 and Tkachuk from 16. If they tank for the next 5 years there is certainly no guarantee they get 5 better players than that group.
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