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Originally Posted by OptimalTates
But moving a 1st and 2 2nds for an established player because the team surprised and got to the second round and now you want to try and compete by trading away futures for established players, is that not the opposite of a "rebuild" period?
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No. It's a strategic move made along the way. The Flames had nobody in the pipeline who could have done Hamilton's job (knowing, as they did, that Fox was never going to sign here), so they had to trade for it.
If you arbitrarily say that a rebuild ends the moment a team makes a trade for an established NHLer, you will find that most rebuilds suddenly get a lot shorter.