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Originally Posted by Bonded
This educated fan base thing just isn't true. Heck, there is a large contingent of posters on this site that think a rebuild is crazy talk and shouldn't happen and this is a cross section of the most diehard fans.
Casual fans will for sure check out during a rebuild but they are already checking out now because the team is full of vets and bad. The Flames should still do it but you can't wrap it in the soft blanket of the 'educated' fans will come out and pay big dollars to watch bad hockey. Thankfully the team is in no danger of relocating so bottom out hard and can sell some cheap tickets for a few years.
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I agree but the notion of Canadian team can't rebuilt also isn't true.
Ottawa, Edmonton, Montreal and Toronto have all done attempted rebuilds. Vancouver kind of did and still had a top 10 draft pick 6 out of 7 straight years.
Only Calgary and Winnipeg have never really gone full bottom out. I think Conroy will try to do more along the lines of what Vancouver did.