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Originally Posted by Hackey
No need to get moody. All I'm saying is if the Flames are currently making the playoffs at a roughly 50% clip, a rebuild that takes 5-6 years and gets you a team that makes the playoffs 5-6 years in a row puts you in the exact same spot. So the risk seems minimal. Especially when you can offset the lost revenue with reduced team spending during those rebuilding years. But if you build the team correctly during those 5-6 years and have a little luck, you should get a solid 5-10 years of steady playoffs and hopefully some deep runs in those years that actually bring in higher revenue. So financially, it seems worth the gamble. Unless of course you believe Craig Conroy is Peter Chiarelli 2.0. In which case, we're doomed no matter what.
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Except a lot of rebuilds take longer
Buffalo has been out for 12
Detroit for 7
Ottawa for 6
Anaheim for 5 but could be a few still
San Jose 4 and nowhere close
And then getting in for 5 or 6 straight is no guarantee
Only five current teams have streaks of 5 or longer