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Originally Posted by bluejays
Just curious what Bean and ownerships perspective is on a rebuild? Hearing Friedman talk about Duclair as a return for Hanifin seems like ownership kyboshing a rebuild.
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Rebuild? That isn’t a word that people like to use because it makes it difficult to negotiate contacts and attract future players… don’t forget the non hockey effects if has on the business too. Instead we fans will hear things like being competitive, injecting youth and working hard every night.
Rebuilding also makes it difficult to change gears where if the stars align you can pivot quickly, like Calgary did after the “Heat Attack Kids” season. The biggest failure was being a year in and year out team instead of building a consistent competing roster.
Bean is … He’s very intelligent and highly effective in his role at CSEC. However when it comes to the Flames and Hockey Ops he’s much better at relaying Concession sales, Budgets and Season ticket holder retention strategy than hockey operations related information. Case and point the press conference.
Murray is Murray. He spends money but it’s has to make money. Him owning the Flames was always to hold the nuts of the city and have a level of political influence through his assets. It got the province to pony up. This shouldn’t be a shock to anyone. It could be worse but it could be better.
As for Duclair talk is just connecting people A) who work together and B) Huberdeau isn’t JG13 on his Edges and isn’t very light on his feet. He needs people who make defenders make mistakes not the other way around. JG13 forced defenders to make mistakes on a nightly basis and punished it. Also Noah and Florida are only linked because him and MT are close.
I should answer the question; I personally believe if well presented they would agree to a well planned and executed rebuild but if it’s 3 years. It sure better be 3 years. Colorado did this but they also had Nathan and Gabe, Calgary doesn’t have two players like that at a young age.
But if you could find your way into the Top 10 of this draft you could argue you have Wolf + X + X, let’s build.