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Originally Posted by dissentowner
You can't possibly know that. We could have more of what we had in the past 15 years if we tore it down and drafted high. How many years have the Sabres been following your blueprint for success? How has that worked out for them? People have this strange belief if you tear it down and rebuild that eventually equals success, actually teams that retool on the fly have a much more success rate.
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The anti rebuild crowd always points at past Buffalo and past Edmonton regimes as to why it won't work. In response to that I'd say that building something takes time, and there's never any guarantee, but to use Edmonton or Buffalo as examples is to cite the worst case scenario. The Oilers and Sabres struggled because they were the worst two managed teams in the NHL, not because they rebuilt.
Those who oppose the idea of rebuilding seem to believe there's a lack of honour in it, but really I just see it as impatience.
People don't believe that tearing it down is the ultimate easy, guaranteed fix. They see it as a way forward that we haven't taken before, and quite frankly we're sick and tired of the current way this team runs. This mediocre season that we're currently mired in is exactly what pro-rebuild fans don't want anymore. The way that it was approached has been a waste of time. "We have a good team" Bean said. No, you misjudged your roster (and it was painfully obvious). This is a mediocre team with no elite talent.
What teams that have retooled on the go without an elite core have ANY actual success that is better than what the Flames have achieved in recent years? None of them have won the Stanley Cup, which has to be the ultimate goal.