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Old 10-18-2021, 12:22 PM   #4675
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Originally Posted by ComixZone View Post
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.
2022-2023 should be the hard tank season - 2023 draft has Connor Bedard and Matvei - two shots at a true game-changing franchise player.
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