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Originally Posted by OutOfTheCube
Selling off everything to be crap is risky too. Chicago built a cup contender the first time around Kane and Toews but they look dire right now. Bedard is good but he's literally all they have, and he's a tier below generational (true generational like McDavid or Crosby/Ovechkin). They're gonna be in the dumpster for a while.
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The team that looks to be on the best track right now is actually San Jose.
They kept pieces like Hertl, Meier, Karlsson, Couture, Vlasic, etc out of the gate at the start of their rebuild, and then moved the pieces when their value was higher as opposed to just selling low, and it seems to have worked for them.
They actually even traded away two high picks one by accident (3rd overall that became Stuetzle for Karlsson), and one in a bit of a questionable trade (11th for 27, 34, 45.)
But other moves and being bad allowed them to get Celebrini, Dickinson, Smith, Musty, Askarov, and Eklund (plus others)
Flames were doing more this approach...but just happens to be that they somehow aren't a bottom 5 team like most people expected.