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Originally Posted by Redrum
Not really, since there wasn't much left to tear down. It was more like a they laid them to rest after a death of natural causes. Then they immediately threw their high picks onto the roster, started throwing picks away on old garbage, and spending every last cent of the cap on free agents while they were still a basement team.
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…..isn’t this what a rebuild is?
Still a basement team? They won a round in 2015. Was that smoke and mirrors, yeah probably a bit but they certainly weren’t a basement team.
I suppose your idea would be to not trade a single pick and acquire as many as possible. There would be as few veterans as possible and the ones you did have probably want out because there’s no sign the organization is trying to compete. Your comment ‘throwing away picks on garbage’ implies this wouldn’t happen in your scenario, which seems like a dubious claim. Seems like this line of thinking would have you saying the Flames threw away picks ‘on garbage’ when a certain (the majority) of picks don’t make it to the NHL.
Building a team requires a mix of veterans, mid-career, and youth. At least if you’re trying to compete.