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Originally Posted by Jiri Hrdina
Well right now
- Buffalo has missed 11 straight and may get in
- Detroit has missed 6 and may get in
- Ottawa has missed 5 and may get in
- Anaheim has missed 4
- NJD have missed 4 and will get in
I think 3 is optimistic. 4-5 is the fastest most of the time. But it can certainly take longer.
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People also disregard that the Flames basically did a perfect rebuild/retool just this decade but sometimes things don't work out.
2010 - drafted Ferland in the 5th round, a 20 goal power winger that teams now would fall all over themselves to have (essentially Tom Wilson)
2011 - landed a franchise player in the 4th round in Gaudreau and useful depth pieces in Granlund and Baertschi
2013 - Traded a bunch of guys and had 3 first round picks. Monahan, Poirier and Klimchuk
2014 - picked 4th overall and landed Bennett
2015 - picked up 2 top 4 defensemen in Andersson and Kylington and a top 6 forward in Mangiapane
2016 - picked top ten again and landed a franchise player in Mathew Tkachuk and also picked a franchise defenseman in Adam Fox and top 9 forward in Dube.
You basically are going to be hard pressed to do any better than that.
But in reality:
We moved Ferland before concussions took him out of the league he landed us Noah Hanifan and Elias Lindholm - but his career was over by the time he was 27.
Gaudreau left town as a UFA
Monahan was a #1 center but injuries broke him down to where he was a shell of himself at 26.
Poirier and Klimchuk busted for various reasons.
Kylington is taking this year off due to personal issues.
Adam Fox didn't report.
Matthew Tkachuk left as a free agent.
Jusso Valimaki got a serious knee injury and fell a mile down the depth chart.
You can rebuild and basically nail it - picks that didn't work out like Poirier or Klimchuk are more than made up for by landing Gaudreau, Ferland, Mangiapane and Fox in later rounds - and end up right where we are now.