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Originally Posted by Jay Random
If, as the rebuild crowd keep saying, the object of a rebuild is to win the Stanley Cup, it is obviously much too early to say that either Chicago or San Jose have succeeded.
It took Chicago seven years out of the playoffs to get that talent, and San Jose five, and neither team is anywhere near competing yet.
Let's just pump the brakes on calling either of those rebuilds ‘successful’, OK?
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Chicago pushed their veteran, three-time Stanley Cup Champions core as long and as hard as they could. That's what resulted in their 7 years out.
In that same 7 year stretch, the Flames have missed the playoffs five times.
(We're counting the 19/20 play-in as misses for this example on both fronts)
I'd sooner take Chicago's last 7 years + their new foundation (Levshunov, Boisvert, Vanacker, Bedard, Moore, Korchinski, Nazar, Rinzel -> all drafted in the last 3 years) than Calgary's last 7 years + our relative lack of foundation today.
If we were to look at the next 5 years, I take Chicago's depth chart 100% of the time.