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Originally Posted by blankall
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.
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That is what the flames between June 2023 and July 2024, trading 8 roster players and basically getting nothing back in return. They did the scorched earth rebuild arguably better than it has ever been done in NHL history in terms of number of assets and how good those assets actually were at the time they were moved. Despite this aggressive tear it down approach to rebuilding it did not work for the Flames last season.
You also need your young players/prospects in the organization at the time of the rip it down to the studs/trade 8 roster players for basically no current assets to suck. This is where the flames effort failed, the young players (Wolf, Coronato, Zary) did not suck enough.