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Originally Posted by Jay Random
And what percentage of non-championship teams are built on top-3 prospects? Pretty similar, you'll find. There is no correlation.
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I suppose you can spin the data any way you’d like to. If you’re against a rebuild, you’re against a rebuild.
I’m not sure what else we need to see besides the hand we’ve been dealt. Knowing our odds of keeping our now best player are, at best, similar to the odds of keeping Johnny before today, what is it that you propose the Flames do to give themselves the best chance at winning a Stanley cup? Draft 12th-17th overall year after year (in the years we don’t trade our first) and hope to hit the lottery on late round picks?
The franchise lacks prospect pipeline to bring top level talent into the mix anytime soon. They lack existing elite level talent, young players that project to become elite, and we’re a small market franchise that isn’t attractive to top level free agents unless you were born in these parts or we overpay.
If not now, at what point do you cut your losses and say the way we’ve been doing things in the history of our franchise isn’t working?