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Originally Posted by Vinny01
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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You’re correct that there’s no guarantee we’d end up better, but on the flip side if we don’t tank we’re stuck with the group we have now and we already know this current group doesn’t have what it takes to get things done. I’m not convinced a retool of the core will change much. The only way to try again is to sell and try again with a new group of picks until you find a group that works.
It sucks but that’s reality. Building a good hockey team isn’t overly complicated. It just requires a ton of luck.