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Originally Posted by ComixZone
I'm not mad, but the Flames did not have a scorched Earth rebuild. That's what I was responding to.
Feaster sold Iggy and Bouw, and then it appeared he was doing a scorched earth rebuild - he slow played that summer after Iggy and Bouw got traded. There was nothing happening - and rightfully so. *Edit: looking at this Feaster even spent futures that Summer. Friggin' guy spent a 4th on Galiardi, a 5th on Russell, a 4th on Colborne, a 6th on Jackman, a 6th on MacDermid - good grief. It's death by a thousand cuts.
Flames then hired Burke (Sept. 2013), and that effectively ended any idea of a scorched earth/focused rebuild. They fired Feaster (good decision, December 2013), then Burke getting a 3rd for Stempniak and a 2nd for Berra was fine work - but they should have got that 2nd for Cammy too. The moment they hired Treliving though it was "rebuild over".
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It seems like your idea of a rebuild means the team should have run out an army of 19 year olds for 5 years or so to get their heads kicked in.
An NHL organization needs vets. You need a mix of ages. I have my gripes too about some of the decisions that people still seem to have not gotten over like the Hamonic trade but why is Bollig for a third still being brought up? Who cares?
Unfortunately the Flames never won the lottery when they were in the running, unlike Dallas getting Hieskanen and Carolina getting Svechniov. Luck has a lot to do with it, more than most GM’s are comfortable with, I’d bet. Especially if the organizational mandate is to be competitive as 18+ years would suggest for this one. Look at Detroit. Been on the outside looking in for 6 years, going on 7 in all likelihood, and not a single top 3 pick to show for it. (That’s Flames luck for you). The trajectory of the Flames rebuild was not misguided. Execution was sometimes lacking but they weren’t wrong in trying to go about a V rebuild, opposed to a U.