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Originally Posted by Jay Random
Chicago: .317 last year, .417 so far this year.
San Jose: .287 last year, .167 so far this year.
Yeah, pretty damn early to claim any kind of success for either of them.
Chicago hasn't won a best-of-7 playoff round since their last Cup win in 2015. They've missed the playoffs in every season since 2017, except the Covid year when they squeaked into the qualifying round (12th in the conference) and knocked off the no-good Oilers to make the first round of actual playoffs – where they were curb-stomped by Vegas.
San Jose has missed the playoffs five straight years and appears to be worse than ever.
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Not sure why you are judging a teams rebuild success based upon recent playoffs.
They are in the earlier stages of a rebuild. I would base it not on their records but on their stable of young talent. And each of those teams has accumulated a plethora of young, potentially elite, talent.
Rebuilds take a long time. Posters who think Calgary will be relevant when the new arena opens are likely going to be disappointed. Calgary likely hasn’t hit bottom yet. This season notwithstanding, I want to see how Calgary looks once guys like Andersson, Kuzmenko etc are gone. Or maybe not gone. It could go either way with Calgary. They are playing well, it’s just not luck. They haven’t really been outplayed since the first game of the year. And Wolf looks good.