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Originally Posted by Enoch Root
This is why rebuilds aren't 3 years, they are more like 7-10 years (unless you get wildly lucky). You can't expect to change your organization's fortunes around with a single draft pick. And getting one high draft pick guarantees nothing. To build a really good core, you need 5 great players. And to get 5, you need several drafts picking high, as well as getting lucky in the late rounds, at least once or twice.
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One of the main reasons rebuilds are 7-10 years is that teams wait too long to get them going and try to hold on too long.
Look at the Flames if with Tkachuk/Gaudreau leaving last summer they could have started the rebuild last summer but instead we have added 2 years, at least to the rebuild already.
How much further along and how much time would be cut off the rebuild if the team started moving assets last summer? Both in terms of actual time and in terms of adding assets that could speed up the rebuild?
Instead we waste time holding onto mediocrity hurting the team now and long term.