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Originally Posted by ComixZone
2-3 years of actual tanking isn't what I'd call rushing a rebuild.
2021/2022: Sell-off. Get the biggest returns you can for Gaudreau, Tkachuk etc.
2022/2023: Sell-off continued. Hanifin, Tanev, Backlund, Monahan - everyone on the table. No bolstering the roster via free agency, try and maximize available cap-space by being a dumping place for other team's problems. Retain cap on players to maximize the return. Hard tank year.
2023/2024: Hard tank year.
Off-Season 2024: Begin the build.
The key to the rebuild would be maximizing the sell-off and truly actually tanking. Be a salary floor team, unless you can really maximize that cap space by taking on bad contracts.
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End of the day the team is hoping to take a step forward from their lowest year when the new building opens? I can’t see that being ideal for the organization. Realistically they would have a year like the Sens just had going from picking 3rd overall to 10th overall?
End of the day it is not vastly different from what the last regime tried. They ended up having 3 tank years in 13, 14, 16 which included a sell off in 13 (they just didn’t get anything for the sell off). They did have super prospect Gaudreau in the system who debuted at 21 as a star and also consolidated assets to add a 22 year old top 4 Dman in their one non tank year of their 4 year build.
You are hoping they do better from the sell off and hit further down the standings than they did last time. Going to have to hope they get better players than Monahan, Bennett, and Tkachuk. Not sure they have a Gaudreau in the system today but maybe they get that piece when they trade Tkachuk?