What rebuilds have taken any less? (someone came up with one, last time this was asked)
Colorado won in year 9 of MacKinnon, but when did they start the rebuild?
Tampa is hard to rectify, because they went up and down for a few years - but they won 12 years after drafting Stamkos
You say that a rebuild is "unquestionably the easiest" path to the cup, but what evidence do you have of that? Most teams that rebuild don't win the cup from it.
Winning the cup requires a lot of things going right for the franchise - probably the #1 thing is lucking out on getting some star players out of nowhere (fourth round or whatever)
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