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Originally Posted by Spurs
It isn't revisionist they had regular season success, is that the point of signing big name free agents? Going to the 2nd round isn't a big accomplishment, it shouldn't be looked at as success.
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The point is obviously to go further, but getting to the cup is usually preceded by steps in that direction, and that’s what they took. Just because it fell apart in the offseason doesn’t mean the team that had been built up until that point wasn’t ready to compete for anything. That’s revisionist history.
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Originally Posted by Redrum
They basically had to take the step. The window was tiny because they refused to rebuild properly 10 years ago, but we had to give term to get somebody, even if it was the wrong choice. So here we are with our 1 year window over, stuck with the long term contract that only does us harm now.
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The window was tiny because Gaudreau and Tkachuk leaving closed it, not because they didn’t rebuild properly.
Teams rebuild to get players like Tkachuk. We had him. We lost him. Doesn’t mean we didn’t rebuild properly to get him.