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Originally Posted by Enoch Root
A rebuild is not 3 years, it is about 7-10 years
The very first players you draft, in year 1, will only be 24 in year 7. The rest will be less than that.
Detroit has been rebuilding for 5 years already, and have picked: 9, 6, 6, 4 and 6
They are no where NEAR being a competitive team, never mind a cup contender.
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Yup.
People look at Chicago/Pittsburgh and say "Look how fast they won!" but even then they were much longer rebuilds than people think.
Chicago had made the playoffs 1 time in the previous 10 seasons before making it in 08-09, and then they won in 09-10. They had been rebuilding for years, just ended up finally being bad enough to get Kane-Toews near the end of that time.
Pittsburgh was a bit of a short rebuild but they got lucky that they won the Crosby lottery, and were able to draft Whitney (5th) Fleury (1st), Malkin (2nd), Crosby (1st) and Staal (2nd)...and even then they didn't win the cup until the 7th year after the rebuild officially started.
Tampa didn't win the cup until 12 years after drafting Stamkos.
If Flames started a tear down right now you'd be looking at 7-10 years before they won anything, and that's if ownership actually remains patient enough to do that.
What likely would happen is what happened in all the Canadian teams rebuilds and after 2-3 years they start to rush it.