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Originally Posted by Jay Random
They did a rebuild. It didn't work out. Most rebuilds don't. You were watching it happen, but evidently didn't notice.
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Rebuild is bottom feeder for a few years while you collect very high draft picks.
Flames have retooled, they've pivoted, but they've always spent to the cap, only got a 4th and 2x 6th overall and there was only a few seasons where they weren't trying to bolster the team at the trade deadline. They thought Johnny, Mony and Bennett were all going to be elite players and pulled out of a rebuild to see if combining them with a still elite Gio would be enough to put them over the top. It wasn't and every version of that team is going to be worse than the previous one, it's a slow descent from here and I'd rather see it all burnt down instead.