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Originally Posted by 1qqaaz
The Flames didn't draft a franchise center in their last rebuild. They only had one top 5 pick. Not putting all the blame on Bennett, but without him succeeding, there was almost going to be somewhat limited playoff success.
The Flames also failed to draft/develop an elite goalie. But this is tough to criticize, because there's no way to reliably do this. Personally, I believe the problem here has been more with development than with drafting.
But these goalies are largely what end rebuilds. The Rangers got Shesterkin. Tampa got Vasilevsky. Pittsburgh got MAF back in the day. And Washington became a goalie factory in general.
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Taking McDonald instead of Demko was idiotic at the time, and well...
Bennett not being the 1C we needed
Monahan was a solid 1C but became injury prone
Fox screwing the team that drafted him
Trading futures for Hamonic and missing a chance to grab Dobson
Also Hamilton not fitting in here really screwed us on having a 1D but Treliving got a solid return of younger core players for him at least
If in 2019 this team has:
1. Demko breaking in
2. Healthy Monahan
3. Stud 1C Bennett
4. Fox in the system
5. Dobson in the system
6. Tkachuk and Gaudreau
7. Lindholm and Hanifin (and no Fox was not pivotal in acquiring these two IMO)
We probably have a lot more than two playoff series wins (plus one play in round win)