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Originally Posted by dissentowner
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LOL...I was waiting for something like this. There was a time when the Sahara was a lush Mediterranean style grassland. If you do enough significant damage to a landscape it doesn't come back the same. The Amazon rainforest does not grow back to become rainforest if you cut it down and replant it. The soil permanently changes after deforestation.
Not that this is a particularly great analogy for a hockey team's approach to building or anything, but ecosystems don't come back the same if you burn them down.
As for the topic, I think you have to keep a few core good players even if you're doing a retool/rebuild/whatever. I think there are enough with Huberdeau, Kadri, Weegar and Andersson that you could fill most of the roster with younger prospect players. I get the impetus to keep Lindholm, just so that the team remains respectably competitive, but at the same time, you could just as easily trade him at his peak value and recoup a lot of prime future assets. Bear in mind though, that if you trade him to a decent/good team for a 1st round pick plus whatever, that you will make that team better and your 1st round pick goes later and later in that round. If you trade Lindholm for a pick in the 20's, you'd better be sure you also get a can't miss blue chip prospect that's already been drafted. To me, this is the rub when trading good players away. You will never really get great value for that player. It's hard to get other teams to part with their high end prospects.