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Originally Posted by Jiri Hrdina
It was never that the re-build option was ridiculous. In fact I think there was quite broad support on this community for it.
I think the primary push back was that most people recognized it wasn't plausible. Meaning, the team simply wasn't going to do it based on where the core of this team is/was, and the historic behaviors of the ownership group.
It's the difference between asking SHOULD the team re-build and WILL the team re-build.
As I've said, you can debate if they are picking the right strategy, but at some point it only makes sense to shift the debate to how well they are executing the strategy that they've selected.
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The Hockey PDOcast did an episode on the Flames right after the Tkachuk trade with Thomas Drance, former Panthers PR guy, and he commented on the rebuild argument. He made some good points -
Vezina nominee goalie
Jack Adams coach. It's Sutter, all-time great and cup winner.
Top 2 team in GAA
Defense is top 5 in the league, if not top 2. Tanev is a top 5 defensive dman in the league
Selke nominee #1 center, and a second line center who is better defensively than the aforementioned selke nominee
A rebuild is not a realistic or reasonable approach with a group like this. He also argued that even if they just removed Tkachuk from their roster without getting anything back they'd still compete for a playoff spot in this division