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bax 
Meh, even if you blow up your team odds are still against for you for grabbing a generational player. Flames still have a lot of young-ish top talent and a good goalie so lots of value there.
Also rebuilds are no guarantee for success. Heck, even Edmonton was gifted what? 4 1st overall picks including the best player in the world and they can still barely make playoffs.
Even the Tampa rebuild didn’t really generate any success until they hit on a bunch of their “non rebuild” draft picks
Kucherov - 58th overall
Palat - 208th overall
Vasilevskiy - 19th overall
Point - 79th overall
Cirelli- 72nd overall
All drafted after they bottomed out. Obviously Hedman and Stamkos are big parts of that team, but point being starting a rebuild doesn’t guarantee success in 4-5 years
Macho0978: Agreed. Someone posted on CP that the top 3 picks from 2011 through 2021 have 0 Stanley cups. 2010 Seguin got 1 in 2011 but his role on team was limited and Boston got 2nd overall from Toronto’s pick not because they were rebuilding
You need to go back to 2009 draft before top picks have cups.
2012 lockout change things. You can’t lock up your stats with life time deals front loaded contracts so you can manipulate the players cap hit. 2nd contracts are out of control and rfas are getting paid. If the situation presents itself you go for top picks but blowing it up is nowhere as successful as it used to be. Retool is the way to go"
This doesn't get emphasized enough.