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Originally Posted by PepsiFree
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.
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.
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Well we know they didn't rebuild properly(if you consider it a rebuild at all). We got Gaudreau in a good late pick before the (non)rebuild. We tried our hardest NOT to rebuild 10 years ago and STILL got Tkachuk because Vancouver is no good. We have nothing left now because we rebuilt(or didn't) improperly AGAIN. The GM was actually dumb enough make the team worse AND even older.
Typically you want to pick up more than one player during a rebuild so you aren't always one layer thin, which the Flames were 2 years ago.