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Originally Posted by Jay Random
But they didn't want to! It isn't a rebuild unless you want to! They even made contract offers to some of the players before trading them, that proves it's not a rebuild!
I think I've about summarized the whole position contrary to yours.
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I think the key I have learned in this thread and from Francis is that to really kick off a rebuild you have to trade away a first and a second 6 months before for a 25 year old player and sign a UFA for 5.3 million dollars a year (the current salary cap equivalent of the 4.5 million the Habs gave Hoffman 6 months before their spectacular rebuild).
Missed opportunity not trading away a 1st and a 2nd this summer and signing a big name UFA. We will never rebuild properly if we continue to miss those opportunities. Montreal wanted to trade their veterans for picks and prospects (unlike the Flames) they just wanted to trade a 1st round pick away 6 months before because that was also a rebuilding move (a move the stubborn Flames seem resistant to doing)
The Habs also throughout their rebuild where they traded 6 vets kept Savard, Gallagher, Armia, Anderson, Dvorak, Drouin the entire time and traded Petry and a 23 year old former 1st round pick for Matheson (a 28 year old dman at the time). So the Flames are messing that up too, they have traded too many vets to be a good rebuilding team like the Habs and have not traded a key vet and say Zary for a 28 year old dman. So many mistakes if we want to truly rebuild like the Habs.