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Originally Posted by Winsor_Pilates
We could lose a lot of time.
By the time these guys age enough for us to be getting 4th overall pick, that could be 5-6 years from now.
If the team is mediocre for 4-6 years and finally drops into a rebuild because they suck enough, that's worst case scenario & a massive L.
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Why?
Do you know who’s going to be draft eligible in 6 years?
Sticking with the Dallas example, they’re set up to be contenders for a decade because in 2017, they drafted three franchise players within 36 picks
-Heiskenan 3rd
-Oettinger 26th
-Robertson 39th
When you get your shots, don’t miss.
This roster isn’t bad enough to tear down - with everything that went wrong last year, they were in it until game 81.
If all they did was play Wolf for 5 games, they make the playoffs.
Playoff hockey in the Saddledome is special. And some time in the next 3-5 years, it’s going to become nothing but a memory.
Maybe it’s as simple as ownership wanting to create as many new playoff memories as they can in the time the Dome has left.
Stuff like that matters to people.