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Originally Posted by Bonded
They did after Iggy left. They didn't really optimize assets going into it but they had a run of picking 6, 4th, and 5th. That's a rebuild.
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We drafted 6th, 4th and 6th, and have subsequently traded each of those players away.
Players that were at least given a fair chance to crack our lineup since the 2011 draft:
1. Sven Baertschi (traded)
2. Johnny Gaudreau (signed in CBJ)
3. Mark Jankowski (traded? cut?)
4. Brett Kulak (traded)
5. Sean Monahan (traded)
6. Sam Bennett (traded)
7. Rasmus Andersson
8. Oliver Kylington
9. Andrew Mangiapane
10. Matthew Tkachuk (traded)
11. Dillon Dube
12. Juuso Valimaki (traded)
13. Adam Ruzicka
10 years of drafting since Iggy left. Only 13 got a real chance at playing. Of those 13, only 4 are still here. It's also worth noting that 3 of those 4 (Andersson, Kylington and Mangiapane) were all drafted in the same year... and we actually traded away our 1st, 3rd and 4th round picks that season, so we got pretty lucky with Andersson and Kylington in the 2nd and Mangiapane in the 6th.
In that same 10 years, we've traded away the following picks:
3x #1
5x #2
5x #3
5x #4
3x #5
2x #6
1x #7
while bringing in:
2x #1
4x #2
3x #3
2x #4
2x #6
1x #7
So... 10 years, 7 picks per year, that's 70 possible players. Of those 70 possible players, 24 were traded out as picks and 14 were brought in as picks, so off the bat that takes us down to only 60 possible players. Of those 60 possible players, only 13 were allowed to play enough NHL games with us to qualify as a rookie. Of those 13, 9 were sent packing - leaving only 4.
During that time, we traded picks for older players. We signed older players. We continued to build the identity of the team around older players. Younger players were told to follow the older players, do with the older guys do, act like the older guys do, etc. The team wasn't rebuilt around younger players, the team continued to build around older players and lucked into some younger guys that (outside of Johnny, Monny and Chucky) were given limited ice time and roles in favour of "learn how to play from these older guys."
You suggest we had a rebuild, but I submit all we had was a "little bit luckier than usual" status quo.