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Originally Posted by SuperMatt18
Both those teams were bad before the tear down though, not like they tore it down after winning the division.
Kings had already spent multiple years out of the playoffs, Rangers were on the down swing, Montreal is picking first this year and that wasn’t a planned tear down either, they ended up just being bad.
The comparisons for their tear downs would be the Flames when they did tear it down in 12-13. But at that point they were bad for a couple years already too.
There isn’t really precident for a team doing a tear down after making the playoffs 3 of 4 years and winning the division in two of those seasons. Of course if Gaudreau walks and Tkachuk refuses to re-sign then you have to think about it but there really isn’t precedent for it.
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But the tear down plan is based on losing Johnny. That hurts and I bet Tkachuk will sign short term or ask for a trade if we lose Johnny
Sure some speculate we go after Kadri if we lose Johnny but why would he pick coming here if Johnny left and Tkachuk is not committed long term? There are other options for him
When Tanev got hurt how much did we miss him but now time to trade him and he worthless. Backlund might have been our best forward against the Oilers but we can’t get anything for him?
Trade deadline or taking back short term bad contracts we can get something good for these guys. We could be loaded in a year and have millions in cap space