TheOctopusKid
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RE: Our comp to FLA - I don't think that is something that people are remembering all that well. I wrote this back in August
"Yeah, I think obviously we will move into a more trade-centered, free agent focused 'phase' once the core is settled out and we know what it looks like. The Panthers were much like the Wings back in the early 2010's where they had a slew of high draft picks and the group failed. From that 2007 - 2017, this is a team that had quite a few major misses who they would offload over the next 10 years to retool (Kulikov, Markstrom, Ellerby, Gudbranson, Huberdeau, Matheson, Barkov, Ekblad, Crouse, Borgstrom, Tippett) - only Ekblad and Barkov are still around.
They realized that their drafted core wasn't good enough and had to make a choice and they started really digging into trades to try to remix the team and traded away a lot of pieces from 2016 - so what was a "build through high draft picks and core" ended up being a insane revolving door for a good 3-4 years just churning through dudes until they hit a trade hotstreak and hit the lotto trying to grab upside value from slightly disappointing Top 10 picks in Bennett and Reinhart - where we also forget they folowed that up with trading away 1st, 4th, and a prospect for Ben Chiarot (wow), Owen Tippett, 1st and a 3rd for Claude Giroux that didn't work, until they were gifted Tkachuk who forced his way there.
All of that is to say - the Panthers are exactly an ideal path and one I hope we kind of avoid. That rebuild started in 2007 and it wasn't until 2021 that it really happened and a lot of that had to do to the fact that they hit on Bennett, Reinhart, and Tkachuk in succession despite making some real squirrely moves around it."
That FLA team up until 2021, was not great. It was a pretty badly stalled out rebuild and it took the acquired assets of 14 Years plus some pretty crazy 'diamond in the rough' reclamation projects to turn them into what they are. I don't think this is the path we should be hoping for.
"Yeah, I think obviously we will move into a more trade-centered, free agent focused 'phase' once the core is settled out and we know what it looks like. The Panthers were much like the Wings back in the early 2010's where they had a slew of high draft picks and the group failed. From that 2007 - 2017, this is a team that had quite a few major misses who they would offload over the next 10 years to retool (Kulikov, Markstrom, Ellerby, Gudbranson, Huberdeau, Matheson, Barkov, Ekblad, Crouse, Borgstrom, Tippett) - only Ekblad and Barkov are still around.
They realized that their drafted core wasn't good enough and had to make a choice and they started really digging into trades to try to remix the team and traded away a lot of pieces from 2016 - so what was a "build through high draft picks and core" ended up being a insane revolving door for a good 3-4 years just churning through dudes until they hit a trade hotstreak and hit the lotto trying to grab upside value from slightly disappointing Top 10 picks in Bennett and Reinhart - where we also forget they folowed that up with trading away 1st, 4th, and a prospect for Ben Chiarot (wow), Owen Tippett, 1st and a 3rd for Claude Giroux that didn't work, until they were gifted Tkachuk who forced his way there.
All of that is to say - the Panthers are exactly an ideal path and one I hope we kind of avoid. That rebuild started in 2007 and it wasn't until 2021 that it really happened and a lot of that had to do to the fact that they hit on Bennett, Reinhart, and Tkachuk in succession despite making some real squirrely moves around it."
That FLA team up until 2021, was not great. It was a pretty badly stalled out rebuild and it took the acquired assets of 14 Years plus some pretty crazy 'diamond in the rough' reclamation projects to turn them into what they are. I don't think this is the path we should be hoping for.


