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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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Yep, they spent years wandering around in irrelevancy not doing anything productive for their team on or off the ice - that’s the one thing I don’t want the Flames to do. Without Johnny, I’m afraid the Flames will do just that…and it kills me inside, because I don’t believe in this team without their best player.
Coming into this off-season I felt the Flames needed to keep their top players, and still find a way to improve the roster…and Johnny is the first move they need to nail. They need to sign him. Without him I think the only way I keep myself as invested as I am is if they pull a Rangers and announce a rebuild.