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Originally Posted by Spurs
I hope he does, but my concern is that even if he does surprise it doesn't really result in much because this Flames team is not built to compete with a good, mediocre or bad Sharangovich.
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I don't think they're rebuilding. They're trying to win now, be competitive, whatever you want to call it. But I think they're also trying to do it in a way that kind of looks like re-tooling. So they're not quite all in either direction. Which I personally think is a very poor strategy. It's one foot in on the rebuild and one foot in one the win now. Which likely keeps them in the middle, and you're neither getting high-end prospects or getting deep playoff runs, or potentially even making the playoffs. I think they want to test the waters first and see if they can overachieve before tearing it down. The problem with that is they're wasting a lot of really good assets that could have been used for a rebuild. So if they eventually go the rebuild route in a few years, I think it's going to be far more difficult. Tkachuk has already been wasted. If Lindholm and Hanifin are used with a similar strategy I fear those guys will be wasted as well. And those were your best pieces to help jump start your rebuild. The more this goes on though the more I think they have no interest in trading those guys for futures.