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Originally Posted by Textcritic
How is this any different in principle from a scorched-earth rebuild through the draft? That too is "betting a lot on a pretty small chance of success."
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There are, IMO, things between scorched earth and going all in. (Not that this is going all in yet.) Boston has good years and bad but doesn't need to do rebuilds, for example. They seem much better at picking when to bet and when to fold.
Wait one year and Monahan is at worst off the books, and we have an extra 1st. Is a 31-year old 2nd line center at 7x7M really such an urgent move right now, for a team that wasn't close last season?
It's one of the best 2nd line centers in the league, so... maybe? But I don't love it.
I don't hate it, because it feels like the franchise needed this mentally right now. We could really, really use a deep run, and this gives us a (IMO small) chance.
But I do think that shedding draft picks and making short term decisions to be "competitive" every year is the reason why the Flames never make it to contender status. We're constantly selling the future for now, and thus at every "now" we're starting from a position of relative weakness, so we need to sell the future again, and the cycle continues, resulting in perpetual mediocrity.