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Originally Posted by Igottago
Because the last one did. The Gaudreau/Monahan led Flames were in the playoffs and won a round not long after the official rebuild was declared.
It's a young mans league now. You get elite young talent and they can turn the ship quickly. I'm not saying the project is complete that quickly, but you start seeing signs of progress.
The doom and gloom about 10 years of being bad is just fear mongering.
Not every team is Edmonton.
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Yes, that is true. However, you cannot count today on a franchise player being found in the 4th round. Further, pointing to the last rebuild/retool as a measure of success is not a good justification. Many posters around here were ready to tear the thing down with Gaudreau and Tkachuk on the roster. A full rebuild as many are advocating is going to be a decade of missing the playoffs, unless they get really lucky.