Canadiens’ Rebuild Offers The Flames A Useful Blueprint

Calgary is looking at Montreal’s quick rebuild and asking the uncomfortable but necessary question: what actually worked? The Canadiens have moved fast enough to make other teams notice, which is usually how a front office becomes a case study instead of a cautionary tale. For the Flames, the value is not in copying the exact formula, but in figuring out which moves can shorten the road without blowing up the map.