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Originally Posted by Calgary4LIfe
Every team in the NHL comes down to two categories:
1) Well-managed
2) Poorly-managed
I will argue until I am blue in the face that NO TEAM should be trying to rebuild unless they have been extremely poorly managed. A rebuild is basically just rolling over on your back and giving up. It only happens not because of any natural cycle. It happens because whomever was in charge made a series of wrong decisions that either:
a) forced you into a rebuild as no other legitimate avenue of improvement exists
b) you are still being mismanaged and the guy in charge doesn't know what else to do
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I think the Flames poorly managed Gaudreau and Tkachuk but once they decided to leave a well managed team would have the foresight to see that as the opportune time to rebuild. The reason many rebuilds struggle is because they start with very limited assets. They wait far to long to start. The only way to speed that up is by converting current assets into future assets. Don't wait until every player has little to no value left. Flip those assets when they have value and can bring back significant pieces that can help you inject an abundance of young talent at once.
They waited to long on Gaudreau and got nothing, they wasted Tkachuk who should have got them at minimum a very good young player to build around. They've now waited until they very last minute on Lindholm and Hanifin. They didn't trade Backlund after a career year. Toffoli was very underwhelming. Not to mention nothing of significance for Hamonic, Brodie, Gio, Bennett. Wasted a 1st to get rid of Monahan. These guys are atrocious at asset management.