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Originally Posted by howard_the_duck
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.
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I guess it depends on your definition of "choose". Many teams sell of their good assets and purposely field a team likely to be very low in the standings, when it becomes clear that their current core won't get it done.