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Originally Posted by Paulie Walnuts
1 player doesn’t open your window lol.
Trading for Petey makes no sense when you ship out the pieces you need to play with him and lack more elite talent.
Probably why rebuilds in Canada just don’t work. Patience seems to be a very big issue.
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I think the issue is that if this who Wolf is at the moment, this team will not be bottoming out to get the top 3 or top 5 draft picks needed to get a 1st line center. And Wolf is probably only going to get better.
If plan B is to use thoughts and prayers to hopefully draft a 1st line center deeper into the draft, the chances of a successful rebuild goes down significantly. It's possible to land one later in the draft, but any team would be lucky to do it once in a decade if at all.
I don't think most people wanting to trade for Pettersson are losing patience, but rather they just don't think it can work anymore. I am not sure if Pettersson is the guy, but I am not hopeful that we will get that elusive 1st line center any other way than a trade or free agent signing at this point.
Or we could trade Wolf to truly bottom out and hope Zarubin is the next best thing by the time a rebuild is poised to take the next step.