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Originally Posted by Vinny01
Tampa and Florida are 2 of the top destinations in the league due to amazing weather, reasonable travel and no state tax. Calgary is a small market cold Canadian city. End of the day if Calgary takes the lose now to win later approach publicly the culture will be ruined and incredibly hard to rebuild. Buffalo made reasonable trades for RoR, Kane, and that did nothing. Look at Ottawa right now. They committed to tanking and rebuilding and cannot turn the corner despite having some foundational pieces in their early-mid 20’s that they drafted in this rebuild.
Ottawa, Columbus, Buffalo are far more similar to Calgary than Tampa or Florida.
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You are correct that not all rebuilds are the same and not all work.
But that shouldn't stop you from trying the only way Calgary will ever get a contending team.
You sign Andersson to a long term contract I admit that Calgary will be a bit better over the next 5 years.
But they likely won't be a playoff team, and it will hurt their chances of getting elite talent to be a contending team.
If Calgary truly can draft better than most teams, let's give them the most and highest draft picks we can and let them prove it.
And that starts will Calgary being bottom 10 this year. Although I've always beleived they could easily achieve that this year.
Wolf coming back to earth has certainly helped that.