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People talk about "full tear down rebuild" and point to the fact that guys like Kuzmenko or Sharangovich were brought in (and could be extended) as evidence that's not happening. But I'm not sure any team outside of maybe Chicago can be described as doing what some people seem to think should be done (or even is possible). You can't get rid of everyone in one year. Every rebuilding team has retained contracts, or brought in medium age players to work with. Even Chicago picked up Seth Jones and moved down in the 2022 draft to do so, and signed Nick Foligno. In 2019 the Rangers were rebuilding, heading towards drafting Kaako and Lefreniere. But they were still acquiring Trouba. Prior to drafting Hughes, NJD tanked. But they also acquired guys like Vatanen and Grabner.