Shea Theodore has nothing to do with what I said. Vegas has routinely traded away many of their picks and prospects to acquire players to help immediately. It has nothing to do with the expansion draft. Seattle could do the same thing if they chose to but haven’t. Other teams could choose to manage that way and don’t. The Flyers had huge pieces on their roster when Homer took over and he chose to trade away lots of picks just like Vegas. Each GM could have chosen a different approach.

You say I’m focusing on what is not known but you’ve said that he wasn’t allowed to trade those guys away which is not known. So I’m focusing on what he did which was not be aggressive to take advantage of his stars prime years nor trade them away to rebuild.
- Schmojo

You're still not getting that your statement was that the Vegas built their team EXACTLY the way the Flyers operated under Holmgren. That is false. The Theodore trade is one peice of evidence of that out of many that is quite different from anything the Flyers did under Holmgren. It is impossible for your premise to be true since the Flyers were not involved in an expansion draft during Holmgren's tenure as the Flyers GM.


It's pretty well known from empirical evidence as well as evidence in how the Flyers operate that Hextall would not have been allowed to complete tear down of the team to "tank" for higher picks. You can choose to ignore that reality but it won't change it.