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Originally Posted by saillias
I know it's Francis and i know what he's doing, but I'm just curious why the Flames media is so interested in this "can/should we rebuild?" debate now. We all understand that in a couple weeks the 3-4 will potentially be Kylington-Pachal, and the 5-6 Gilbert-Solovyov, and the starter maybe Vladar or Wolf. It's an obsolete question now. It doesn't matter if you don't believe in rebuilds, it's happening.
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I agree that this is a rebuild at this point and I also think it’s the best thing to do going forward. However, where I can see the debate as to if this stays a rebuild will be in the offseason. My hope is that the flames don’t go hunting for any big signings this summer and instead sticks to the plan of getting younger and building through the draft - that’s a rebuild IMO. Where management could stray from the rebuild concept is if they instantly try to get better next year by signing someone like Stevenson or Reinhart to a massive deal. I know it’s highly unlikely guys like that will want to come here but Treliving often got free agents to sign with Calgary by overpaying for them so it’s not impossible. Calgary will have the cap space to do something like that but I really hope they don’t.
The good thing is that Conroy so far has shown that he does not want to overspend on guys to convince them to sign. He has made fair market value offers and if that’s not enough, he is willing to move on. Very different from Treliving who, if he was still here, would no doubt be planning to sign 30-year-old UFA Stevenson to an $8 million x 7 years deal because he “knows how to win” and “plays the right way”. Following in the footsteps of Troy Brouwer and James Neal who were fresh of a couple years of performing well on playoff teams only to instantly become awful signings for the flames.