My rebuilt Stars I worked hard on and it made the semifinals, at least. I assembled a 32-man squad deep in talent developing nicely at the highest level of competition.
According to an added rule, a rebuilder MUST trade away their first three picks, and so I traded Stamkos.
My mistake was trading Stamkos to a rebuilder: the eventual Rebuilder Cup champion. I think he won it a lot of votes.
I don't think this squad without Stamkos would have won the rebuilding championship:
Gabriel Landeskog / XXXXXX XXXXXXX / Nikita Kucherov
Tyler Toffoli / Matt Duchene / Nino Niederreiter
Nikolaj Ehlers / Alex Galchenyuk / Oliver Bjorkstrand
Hudson Fasching / Teemu Pulkinnen / Brendan Lemieux
Bobby Farnham
Seth Jones / Aaron Ekblad
Sami Vatanen / Ryan Murray
Scott Harrington / Derrick Pouliot
Thatcher Demko
Tristan Jarry