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Originally Posted by SuperMatt18
That's being a bit generous towards Chicago as their rebuild is much longer than 3 seasons at this point.
They drafted 8th overall in 2018 (Boqvist) and 3rd overall in 2019 (Dach) and that was clearly part of the "rebuild".
Traded away a bunch of assets including a 6th OV pick (Jiricek) and 12th OV (Sillinger) for Jones
Korchinski and Nazar don't look that special.
They haven't given Bedard the support required to actually develop into a super star.
And even Levshunov is having an okay season in the AHL...maybe should have spent another year in the NCAA.
They haven't finished above 20th in the league since 17-18, and they've drafted high but I think you can question if they've drafted well, and they also made some bad moves to trade assets that were high picks away. So you can call it "Year 3" but really it's "Year 8" for Chicago.
Edit: For San Jose this is "Year 6"...they finished 29th OV in 19-20. Calgary would realistically be in "Year 2".
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They weren't rebuilding until the year after that Jones trade. That Jones trade was their last ditch attempt to staying competitive with the remnants of their Stanley Cups (Kane and Toews) in 2021.
In 2022, Chicago traded away Debrincat and Dach. That was the start of their rebuild. They realized what they were doing was not a path forward to success, so they hard pivoted in July of 2022.