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Originally Posted by PepsiFree
I’m not sure what your point is in bringing up the last Flames rebuild.
But, if you’re arbitrarily starting Calgary’s stockpiling of talent at the Zary draft, then good news! They’re already 4 of the 6 years into the stockpiling of talent you’re looking for. Though I have a feeling you aren’t actually talking about drafting 24th overall for a few years.
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To show how long the last “rebuild” actually took. It doesn’t matter when they stopped calling it one - the last time they drafted top-10 was 2016, so the “rebuild” was functionally complete at that point. They sank and swam on their own merit.
The talent Calgary has drafted over the last few years hopefully proves to be solid depth. This is a step in the right direction over the last time.
People focus on Bennett not working out - that was huge, but Klimchuk and Poirier being complete non-factors, Jankowski being a 4th line marshmallow, Valimaki failing to become a contributor - four first round busts. It’s the equivalent of signing a player to a max off sheet, except you only got Mark Jankowski out of it.
Even if they do hit on all their top picks over the next three years, it’s likely 3-4 years before those picks are capable of carrying the mail for an NHL team.
So they’re probably still gonna be bad for 3-5 years, no matter what happens.
Let’s hope they make their picks count.