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Originally Posted by zukes
Could you imagine this place if they did go scorched Earth rebuild? It wouldn't be fast enough, they'd draft the wrong guys, any free agent signing would be frowned upon, (wait, that happens now).
This is the direction that the team has chosen. Now we have to actually be patient and see how it works out, and we won't even start knowing that untilthe new building is ready.
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I can't say I agree.
I would say the very beginnings of a direction has been chosen, but we're far from a point of just sitting back and letting things unfold for 5 years and 'don't bother complaining'. There's still an extremely wide range of outcomes I would say from this point moving forward that a couple good drafts have not changed.
On one end of the spectrum our prospect depth prevails, with a couple prospects popping off and we're basically Dallas north. The other is our prospects don't materialize as hoped, our NHL vets that are currently driving the bus start declining to the point of diminishing trade returns/untradeable contracts, and the team plummets down the standings.
It's extremely rare that teams choose the scorched earth rebuild, rather it chooses them. Teams that are declining can only stave off a rebuild for so long.
So, anyone dunking on people about scorched earth being avoided are getting ahead of themselves. I don't think the Flames are out of the woods by any stretch despite some encouraging additions to their prospect pool.