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Originally Posted by Jay Random
So you admit that there isn't anything a team can do to make itself even worse than Chicago (and Arizona)? Good luck for anyone else to draft top 3, then.
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No?
They could have taken the same tactic as the Blackhawks and started shipping players out who wouldn't be part of the rebuild.
Chicago is expected to be bad because they just traded a multi-time 40 goal-scorer who is 24 years old. They used cap-space and a rebuilding year to acquire an additional 1st round pick by taking Mrazek. They didn't qualify middle-tier players who gave them a chance to win a couple games.
The Flames could have been following a similar plan and gutting the team for its first real rebuild this generation.
Of course there's no guarantee in drafting Bedard (or that he will be as good as expected), but Chicago took steps to give them better odds. The Flames clearly haven't.