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Originally Posted by YyjFlames
It kind of can be both... and really, it started with the intention to quickly retool where they initially wanted to trade a couple of their free agents who wouldn't sign and resign the rest.
That didn't happen because they had a poor start to the year, so they had to trade all of them, which made for a longer retool. And if they trade Markstrom and Wolf and the other young guys don't take a big step -- and then Andersson and Sherangovich want out -- they're very much forced into a full rebuild even if they intended a quicker retool.
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It could end up having to turn into a rebuild but I look at it more as a "smart retool" where Conroy's focus is still playoffs but he's not going to waste assets on older players to do it.
He's not just looking at the present but the future which is why he's doing trades like the Toffoli, Lindholm, and Hanifin trade where he's getting back someone who can play now and prospects/picks who will hopefully be playing in the future.