3-5 years? Ive been reading that since.... forever with this club.
Were you reading that when they traded a 20 year old Anthony DeAngelo and the 7th overall pick for a prematurely old, bald, and slow Derek Stepan and an back-up goalie that could never stay healthy in Antti Raanta? Or when they traded 24 year old Connor Murphy for a broken down Nik Hjalmarsson? Did you read that when they traded 22 year old Anthony Duclair for a declining Richard Panik in his late 20s? How about when they traded recent 3rd overall pick Dylan Strome for Nick Schmaltz? Or was it when they turned Max Domi and POJ into Phil Kessel? Maybe it was trading three prospects, a 1st, and a 2nd for a Taylor Hall RENTAL? Or maybe it was when the league sanctioned a 1st and a 2nd round draft pick from them.
Did that half decade under Chayka really strike you as rebuilding? Does that all seem like what they're doing now? Or are you just making shit up?