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Originally Posted by Matata
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.
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This is what I think about when people say that rebuilds don't guarantee success. True, but the Flames have never really committed to a rebuild and have been one of the least successful franchises in North American pro-sports. It's time to try something else, and most championship teams have won so because they rebuilt at some point.
Dumb analogy time... I think of a rebuild as building a sandwich and a championship team is a cheeseburger. Sure, not all sandwiches are cheeseburgers, some might be BLTs or egg salad. But all cheeseburgers are sandwiches. If you commit to never eating a sandwich, you will never eat a cheeseburger then either.
The Flames were close to having a cheeseburger at one point, but retooled it into something else. The lettuce got old and then they tried to make up for it by adding pickles, the bun was traded out for bread, and the beef was traded for donkey meat.