[Sylvanfan]

I'd like to know when a team who was winning and in a playoff spot pulled the plug and said, hey let's just rebuild. Every rebuild/retool is predicated by a team not playing well be it a bad roster, injuries to key players, or cores getting too old.

The Flames got a bit of a kick in the ass to go here because a couple of the better guys in Lindholm and Hanifin wouldn't take their money. They did move a few other good complementary guys for something. So hopefully that speeds things up a bit as they were more proactive than others have been in moving off veteran guys.

Don't get me wrong they still shat the bed as an organization with the Gaudreau/Tkachuck fallout and deserve the venom theu get for the mess that created with Huberdeau/Weegar/Kadri/Monahan to an extent. Although Kadri and Weegar sre both good useful players. But on the brightside, they have avoided running the ship full on into the iceberg. Hopefully they make some smart choices in the next couple of seasons to eventually get a better product on the ice that has some staying power.