[JohnnyB]

Originally Posted by devo22

isn't that what the Rangers did? They announced a rebuild in February 2018 and immediately started flipping veterans for picks and prospects.

Feb 20 - traded Nick Holden for Rob O'Gara and a 3rd
Feb 22 - traded Michael Grabner for Yegor Rykov and a 2nd
Feb 25 - traded Rick Nash for Ryan Spooner, Matt Beleskey, Ryan Lindgren, a 1st and a 7th
Feb 26 - traded Ryan McDonagh and J.T. Miller for Vladislav Namestnikov, Libor Hajek, Brett Howden, a 1st and a 2nd

then the year after that:

Feb 23 - traded Mats Zuccarello for a 2nd and a 3rd
Feb 25 - traded Kevin Hayes for Brendan Lemieux, a 1st and a 4th
Feb 25 - traded Adam McQuaid for Julius Bergman, a 4th and a 7th

they traded away lots of veterans and brought in a boatload of draft capital. Sure, they lucked out by winning the lottery twice, signing Panarin and trading for Fox, but the overall strategy was to rip out the core and acquire picks and prospects. So if the Flames indeed want to do a Rangers style rebuild, I'd expect them to move the likes of Markstrom, Tanev, Backlund and so on over the course of the next one or two years.

Thanks. I hadn't remembered all of those moves for picks with the Rangers. I just remembered the players in some of those moves. Going a route like what they did is actually okay by me then. Hopefully Treliving can pull it off with all the value in the assets now.