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Originally Posted by Jiri Hrdina
No I'm not advocating for a forever re-build, but this is a franchise that has been asset poor since the mid 90s. These aren't binary choices. You can give more attention to your asset base to give yourself more chances to win cups long-term, instead of building towards limited contention windows of 2-3 years. Otherwise you are constantly chasing your tail.
This organization priorities winning now over building a proper asset base.
But they never win now. So it's the worst of both.
Deplete the asset base to try to win
Never win.
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I think they were asset poor since the 90’s largely because of some absolute brutal drafting that I think has taken a step forward in the last 10 years. Treliving has made some poor pick related trades. Hamonic, Elliott, Lazar, Bollig were all poor deals in hindsight. Toffoli deal is still under evaluation but our depth chart looks better with him on it after losing Tkachuk on the right side.
You are talking about trading our best player when he was 24-25 years old because it gives the team more assets but also weakens the team significantly to the point they wouldn’t be competitive and likely top free agents like Markstrom would have not signed here.
I feel like your issue may be due to the poor drafting this team had in the 2000’s. Since the teams cup run in 04:
Pelech, Irving, Nemisz, Erixon, No pick (10), Baerstchi, Jankowski, Poirier, Klimchuk, no pick (15), Valimaki, no pick (18), no pick (22)
All of these picks have been mediocre to straight bad
Jury is still out on
Pelletier, Zary, Coronato
Successful picks
Backlund, Monahan, Bennett (debatable), Tkachuk
One late pick turned into a long time member of the franchise the other 3 were their top 6 picks of the rebuild. Some of those medicore assets were flipped for value (Erixon, 2015 1st rounder, 2022 first rounder, Baerstchi) but most were lost for nothing.
You have to hit on your picks to get the asset base you are talking about.