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Originally Posted by FlamesAddiction
Part of any rebuild is to build through the draft, then when the window starts to open, supplement the team through trades and free agency. Most teams in the U.S. have no problem with that second part. They don't need to think about it that much. With Canadian teams, it is a lot harder to count on that part because free agents are less likely to come, and like a quarter of the players, and most of the best players, have movement clauses. If you do rebuild, you risk getting stuck in the first part of the cycle, unless you totally luck out and get a McDavid.
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Thing is the key is to draft well.
Players want to play with other good players. Good young teams will always attract free agents.
Some markets will always have an advantage (Vegas, New York, LA) but for the rest of the teams it is drafting good players and having good young teams that will attract free agents.
Flames had no issue attracting free agents during the Treliving era, because the core of Gaudreau, Tkachuk, Monahan seemed to be attractive to play with.