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FlamesAddiction · 10-19-2025, 10:37 PM

I am actually pretty confident with the recent drafting the Flames have done (Reschny, Potter, Gridin, Basha, Misa, Parekh, Battaglia) and guys like Coronato and Wolf locked in, if we bottom out for 3 years and hopefully get 3 top 5 picks in that time (and dog willing, a 1st OA), we could be on the quicker end of a rebuild (say 5 years to get out of the funk and start progressing). At that point, if you have the blue chip guys coming along, it also gets easier to keep and attract free agents. You really just have to hope that the top 5 picks don't have any busts.

But that's the thing, it doesn't take just one year of bottoming out. Teams like Florida, Pittsburgh, Chicago, Tampa, Colorado, Carolina, and the Grease, had to do it a few times, so that seems to be normal.

10-19-2025, 10:37 PM	#199
FlamesAddiction Franchise Player Join Date: Oct 2001 Location: Vancouver Exp:	I am actually pretty confident with the recent drafting the Flames have done (Reschny, Potter, Gridin, Basha, Misa, Parekh, Battaglia) and guys like Coronato and Wolf locked in, if we bottom out for 3 years and hopefully get 3 top 5 picks in that time (and dog willing, a 1st OA), we could be on the quicker end of a rebuild (say 5 years to get out of the funk and start progressing). At that point, if you have the blue chip guys coming along, it also gets easier to keep and attract free agents. You really just have to hope that the top 5 picks don't have any busts. But that's the thing, it doesn't take just one year of bottoming out. Teams like Florida, Pittsburgh, Chicago, Tampa, Colorado, Carolina, and the Grease, had to do it a few times, so that seems to be normal. __________________ "A pessimist thinks things can't get any worse. An optimist knows they can."