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Originally Posted by GullFoss
Some of these posts seem really wild to me.
Apparently there's no vision and wasn't a rebuild. Yet...there clearly was a rebuild around Johnny, Monahan, Lindholm, Hanifin, Chuckie and Bennett. It culminated in two great regular seasons and one second round appearance - both of which were last season. To say the team doesn't rebuild is wild given that three of these guys were drafted in the top 5 by the flames themselves
Even going into this season, the team was built properly and was ranked among a top 4 team to win a cup. So to suggest it 100% made sense to rebuild when you had a consensus top-5 team is insane to me. This isn't ownership with its head in the cloud. This is gambling odds makers, expert pundits, analytics sites, etc...all saying the flames were a really good team.
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No they tried to start competing right after making the playoffs hence the Dougie Hamilton trade for two 1sts and 2 seconds. They failed and lucked into Matthew Tkachuk and tried to compete right after that as well with the horrific signing for Troy Bouwer.
The signing of Mason Raymond and Jonas Hiller where aimed at keeping the tame competitive while they tried to retool.
They waited way too long to trade Iginla and got back a crappy 1st and a couple of cashiers for him because of the idiot GM they had hired. After that he gave away Bouwmeester for Gios doppleganger and the greatest goalie of all time and another crappy 1st.
The Sam Bennett pick might be the only earned pick trying to build, but it seemed like once we got a high pick it was time to try and make it in again.
This is more of a shot at Edwards and his meddling.