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Originally Posted by gvitaly
Boston maybe. They only missed the playoffs for 2 years.
From 2004-06 they drafted Krejci , Kessel(Seguin), Marchand, and Lucic.
They had Bergeron in the system from 2003.
They signed UFAs Thomas and Chara, and traded for the rest of their D.
It still took them until 2011-12 to win the cup, and they lost in the 2nd round in the two prior years.
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Yep, that's about as close as it gets.
But if the criterion for the end of a rebuild is ‘won Stanley Cup’, there are plenty of teams that have been in a rebuild since the day they joined the league. This does not strike me as a useful way to define the term.