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Royle9 · 11-07-2025, 02:17 PM

This just further prooves that the world "rebuild" is subjective to the user that's referencing it.

What truly is a rebuild? I would argue that you could find a dozen+ different interpretations/understandings of the true word just by polling the users on this very forum, and I know its been discussed in the past before and everyone had varying degree's of what rebuild is to them.

Some argue a rebuild starts when you lose 1 or more of your core (post Iginla)
Some argue a rebuild starts when we traded away 1 or 2 veteran players (Losing Johnny/Tkachuk)
Some argue a rebuild started when we drafted 4th or 6th (Tkachuk/Sean)
Some argue a rebuild started when we built around Johnny and Sean as the core
Some argue we've never seen a rebuild because we haven't truly tore the team down to the absolute studs
Some argue we've never seen a rebuild because we haven't actually acknowledged it as a Franchise either in writing or in conversation

I think its a mix of a little bit of everything.

I personally feel like this team hasn't truly had a proper rebuild in 35 years, because to me a true rebuild is tearing it down to the studs, bottoming out for more than 1 year and drafting high (top 5-10) multiple times over the course of a few years. I personally think a re-build takes at least 3-5 years before you can call it a true rebuild pending your rebuilding through the draft/youth movement because its almost nearly impossible to re-build through acquisitions/trades.

I think the Flames have re-tooled, re-shuffled the core, but never actually bottomed out long enough to get a top 3 pick, and I think the history proves that to be true.
I think they've rushed a lot of these "re-tools" in order to try and salvage playoff revenue (and much has been hinted as this being the word of ownership)
I think we botched some of our rebuild years by trading away 1st's and 2nd's trying to chase success and windows when we went after both Hamilton and Hamonic.

It's a spicy subject though, and people will argue both sides to death so I try to avoid it these days.

11-07-2025, 02:17 PM	#11853
Royle9 Franchise Player Join Date: Feb 2010 Exp:	This just further prooves that the world "rebuild" is subjective to the user that's referencing it. What truly is a rebuild? I would argue that you could find a dozen+ different interpretations/understandings of the true word just by polling the users on this very forum, and I know its been discussed in the past before and everyone had varying degree's of what rebuild is to them. Some argue a rebuild starts when you lose 1 or more of your core (post Iginla) Some argue a rebuild starts when we traded away 1 or 2 veteran players (Losing Johnny/Tkachuk) Some argue a rebuild started when we drafted 4th or 6th (Tkachuk/Sean) Some argue a rebuild started when we built around Johnny and Sean as the core Some argue we've never seen a rebuild because we haven't truly tore the team down to the absolute studs Some argue we've never seen a rebuild because we haven't actually acknowledged it as a Franchise either in writing or in conversation I think its a mix of a little bit of everything. I personally feel like this team hasn't truly had a proper rebuild in 35 years, because to me a true rebuild is tearing it down to the studs, bottoming out for more than 1 year and drafting high (top 5-10) multiple times over the course of a few years. I personally think a re-build takes at least 3-5 years before you can call it a true rebuild pending your rebuilding through the draft/youth movement because its almost nearly impossible to re-build through acquisitions/trades. I think the Flames have re-tooled, re-shuffled the core, but never actually bottomed out long enough to get a top 3 pick, and I think the history proves that to be true. I think they've rushed a lot of these "re-tools" in order to try and salvage playoff revenue (and much has been hinted as this being the word of ownership) I think we botched some of our rebuild years by trading away 1st's and 2nd's trying to chase success and windows when we went after both Hamilton and Hamonic. It's a spicy subject though, and people will argue both sides to death so I try to avoid it these days. Last edited by Royle9; 11-07-2025 at 02:24 PM.