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Originally Posted by Jiri Hrdina
So we are calling that a successful re-build? Do we not agree that one of the issues was a lack of patience leading to bad signings and deals like the Hamonic one?
Show me examples of turning the ship quickly.
I'm pro re-build but this notion that it can be done in 3-4 years is silly, made more hilarious by the fact that I thought there was agreement that the last re-build failed because they didn't give it enough time.
So let's just make the same mistake again?
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They made the playoffs the first time without moving any future pieces and in fact traded current pieces for future pieces that year. The mistake was when they thought it was complete. But I think the point was that it is not a guarantee that you are out of the playoffs for 7-9 years if you start a rebuild because the Flames were not. Once they finally mercifully started a rebuild in 2013 it took 3 years to make the playoffs after they started selling off pieces.