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Originally Posted by BigThief
Canucks were a good team with good players that fell apart. Those same star players came together again. Totally different situation
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Not disagreeing about the Canucks but I think there's some scenarios where there can be a catalyst in a rebuild. There's been times (albeit not often) where a team will be in a full scorched earth rebuild and then their top prospects take the league by storm in addition to some lower-end prospects breaking out and then after year 2 or 3 they're able to bring in some big UFA signings, make a few trades and become a playoff team way quicker than expected.
Obviously lots of stars need to align and it's usually not as beneficial long-term to jump the gun, but I feel like it does happen from time to time - I could be remembering wrong because I'm smooth-brained but I feel like that's what happened with Chicago during the early years of the Toews-Kane era. With that being said though we have nowhere near the prospect pool to be thinking about that anytime soon and I think we should just stay the course.