I'd define a rebuild as a team prioritizing the long term term at the expense of the immediate term. So consistently moving roster players for futures would be a key sign of a rebuilding team.
@@mtlhockeytalk You can look at the current NYR and see a team that went through a rapid rebuild by keeping a vet core and adding more vets to see the risk with that. Player evaluation is important for every phase.
@@jfkst1 Again...totally agree. Except the NYR rebuild wasn't meant to be quick. After Gorton was fired & replaced with Chris Drury, that's where the problems with the rebuild began.
This administration has done a great job of getting high character, high talent players. Slaf, Demidov, Hutson, Fowler, Xhejaks, etc. They haven't overvalued character the way I think Bergevin did however. I liked what Gorton said in one of the behind the scenes draft videos, he spoke of the fact that all nhlers had produced somewhere along the line in their junior years, so don't fall in love with a guy who has great character but hasn't produced because chances are he isn't talented enough to make it. That plus if you watch the video from the Hutson draft they we're able to identify the importance he could have based on his analytics allowed them to make a home run pick. As an organization for they have a methodical mindset and it's obvious that the plan is working. Organizational cohesion will be key so I would like to see Geoff Molson pony up and try and retain guys like Bobrov with the organizations wealth. This is a proper rebuild.
I'd define a rebuild as a team prioritizing the long term term at the expense of the immediate term. So consistently moving roster players for futures would be a key sign of a rebuilding team.
Agreed, that's part of it, but without a pre-determined identity, teams could easily move players for futures and keep spinning their wheels.
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You can look at the current NYR and see a team that went through a rapid rebuild by keeping a vet core and adding more vets to see the risk with that. Player evaluation is important for every phase.
@@jfkst1 Again...totally agree. Except the NYR rebuild wasn't meant to be quick. After Gorton was fired & replaced with Chris Drury, that's where the problems with the rebuild began.
This administration has done a great job of getting high character, high talent players. Slaf, Demidov, Hutson, Fowler, Xhejaks, etc. They haven't overvalued character the way I think Bergevin did however. I liked what Gorton said in one of the behind the scenes draft videos, he spoke of the fact that all nhlers had produced somewhere along the line in their junior years, so don't fall in love with a guy who has great character but hasn't produced because chances are he isn't talented enough to make it. That plus if you watch the video from the Hutson draft they we're able to identify the importance he could have based on his analytics allowed them to make a home run pick. As an organization for they have a methodical mindset and it's obvious that the plan is working. Organizational cohesion will be key so I would like to see Geoff Molson pony up and try and retain guys like Bobrov with the organizations wealth. This is a proper rebuild.