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Originally Posted by Vinny01
June 2023 is false. They entered that season with intentions of competing and re-signing many of their players. The Toffoli trade is not a rebuilding trade. They needed to be cap compliant so traded a 34 goal 73pt forward for a third rounder and a 25 year old player. How is that a rebuilding trade? If they prioritized the rebuild they wouldn’t have settled on a 3rd round pick and would have prioritized futures over a player that would help immediately.
There was absolutely a hope the flames though getting rid of Sutter would have turned things around but once they got off to a terrible start they pivoted and stopped trying to sign Hanifin and Steinberg says they knew in November they were going to trade Lindholm.
November when they traded Zadorov was when the rebuild truly kicked off in my opinion.
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I don’t know the point of calling something false and then making stuff up. The Toffoli trade wasn’t a cap compliance trade, they were 2.4M under the cap after signing Sharangovich. Getting younger by 10 years in a single trade is absolutely a rebuilding move, especially when you’re trading a known quantity for a pick and a developing/potential one. I guess that’s just a matter of opinion but it’s odd to try to reframe that move as trying to compete. They could have just kept Toffoli.
They also already knew at that draft that they were going to be moving on from most or all of the 2024 free agent class.
Conroy came in with a plan and started carrying it out. I don’t know why people have to throw these weird little made up stories around like Toffoli being moved for cap compliance lol.