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Originally Posted by GioforPM
The burn it down strategy doesn’t work very well. Teams that have done well lately fell into their high picks through just being bad, not by trading in order to be bad. Teams that intentionally divest all talent have no one to bring the high picks along. See Buffalo.
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The New York Rangers and LA Kings absolutely tore it down by trading away players for futures. New Jersey also sold off players for a few years. Sure, these teams spent a couple of years trying to make it work, but couldn’t so they tore it down while they were still rolling around in mediocrity. They had a plan. As did Toronto.
Using Edmonton and Buffalo as examples that the approach doesn’t work only proves that poorly run, unstable teams can’t make it work.
If the Flames do rebuild, I absolutely want Treliving to be the GM doing it. I think if he was given the opportunity to draft in the top-3 a few times and then build on top of those picks that he’d be able to build a Stanley Cup team.