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Originally Posted by yourbestfriend
I see where your coming from, but to be fair, Vegas is really the only team in the league using this strategy.
The last 10 cup winners pretty much had almost all of their core players drafted or developed organically as opposed to trading or signing core pieces. It's a less sexy and way slower way of doing things, but it's a more viable long term solution as you don't deplete your team of picks, prospects and cap.
Vegas will be in cap hell very quickly (if not already), and if they don't win a cup in the next, lets say five years, will all of it have been worth it, especially when they have no prospects coming up?
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Then within 4 or 5 years they will probably have drafted two or three of the top talents in the game after they bottom out. Have seen lots of teams do that and continually suck like the Sabres, but the NHL does not reward middle of the pack teams that tread water - if you've concluded you don't have a contending team, time to tear it down or change things up. Anyway I hope it is all a moot point and the flames tear it up this season. Maybe the coaching change and depth changes will be enough to push them forward, optimistic based on what sutter did with the kings, but not feeling great about being in a division with Eichel/Stone and McDavid/Draisaitl for years to come, just don't think the flames stack up at the top end.