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Originally Posted by Paulie Walnuts
Sharks picked 3 and 1 overall. They are coming out of the rebuild now.
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The Sharks have a .326 winning percentage this year. They are not even beginning to come out of the rebuild. Yet they are signing veteran players in their thirties, some of them to big-money contracts with term. Why? Because they have to ice a team until their youth movement is ready to graduate – which does not happen all at once. Every rebuilding team does this.
You are drawing distinctions that do not exist between what the Flames are actually doing and what you imagine an ideal rebuilding team would do. No team has ever conducted a rebuild in the way that you think it should be done, except possibly the 1901 Montreal Shamrocks.
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Originally Posted by Paulie Walnuts
Flames haven’t even started. Every trade you mentioned was forced on the team. Not a strategy.
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They could have traded for established players only. Nobody forced them to take eight picks, three prospects, a minor-leaguer, and only three regular NHLers.
I was, in fact, responding to a poster who accused the Flames of NOT trading for picks and prospects, and I showed very clearly that most of the assets they got in that trade were, in fact, picks and prospects. Apparently you completely missed the point that we were discussing. You're good at that.