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Originally Posted by Paulie Walnuts
It’s clear a few and probably more can’t stomach a rebuild and that’s fine. Instead of wasting pages and pages going on about how the team is not far off just some free agents away just say you don’t want to see a full on rebuild. It was hilarious seeing the poster being confused seeing the Flames in the door closed contention cycle in the GDT.
Another that compared Parekh to Evander Kane, can’t answer how teams get elite talent skirting around the question.
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I don’t think more than one person has said they should load up on UFAs and even that person did not say that, that is just something that you made up in your own head.
As to getting elite talent you can pull a Carolina and load up on picks. They have one guy on their roster who was a top 5 pick and he is probably their 4th best forward, surpassed by guys who were not top 5 picks. Carolina is set up pretty well for many years to come. Or you can pull a Boston who was an elite team for more than a decade and got almost no juice from their top 5 pick. Vegas is another example of a team that used a boatload of picks to become an elite team without a top 5 pick. The Jets are another team that took a similar approach.
Pretty sure most fans can stomach a rebuild, I for one have been calling for the Flames to load up on picks since about 2018. But I ain’t going to lose much sleep if they don’t get a top 5 pick because you don’t need one to build a Stanley Cup contender.
The Flames biggest problem is that they don’t have any centers in the system, not that they do not have a top 5 pick.
Hope this helps.