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Originally Posted by Paulie Walnuts
Yeah none of those vets are worth building around. It’s embarrassing to think so. They are all past their prime.
The team needs to rebuild but as we know Edwards won’t allow that.
Cozen isn’t the elite talent to take this team over the top. Team needs actual elite top line talent.
And Dino with his usual Wolf and post in another thread saying wolf isn’t the reason we are good.
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Duh. You do not build around the vets. You build around the future core of players. The vets become supporting players as you bring on the new core. The new core has some good pieces. #1G, #1D, #1RW and some potentially solid supporting pieces.
Cozens has the potential to be a #1C. Maybe he would cap out as a #2 but at 24 you don't know that he won't become a #1C in the next few years given the opportunity on a non-Sabres team. The early data shows that you might be wrong in your assessment of the player and situation. Go figure.
Honestly, I think Conroy was trying to take the team into a full rebuild last season as he shipped out a huge number of core members of the roster but there are a few things that happened:
1) He is unable to move vets like Kadri and Huberdeau thanks to big contracts and NMCs from Treliving.
2) The collective Flames vets are playing as good or better this season than they showed 2 years ago... had Huberdeau specifically stayed as listless as previous seasons then this team is probably in the bottom 5.
3) The young players that have come online are also playing too good to tank
4) The other tanking teams are too tanky for us to out-tank
You keep looking for some imaginary ownership conspiracy and ignore any other factors that could explain this season.