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Originally Posted by Caged Great
The Flames, since the last lockout, have had enough skill/depth that they should've made the playoffs in every year and won the division a few times. Yet each time they've choked. Now yes, that has been happening since 1990, 2004 being the exception, but there has been something that has kept the Flames from being as good as they have looked on paper.
A former excuse was the coaching staff, which has been wholly changed a couple times before this year. Same results.
Some of our other long term guys like Langkow and Regehr etc might have been an issue. Those guys are gone. Same results
The GM has been poor in talent evaluation, he's gone and Feaster's in. Same results.
The only thing that isn't different is Kipper and Iginla. If this nonsense continues, there's only one thing that is still unchanged, and that's the leadership on the team. That must be changed, even if it hurts in the short term if we continue to suck.
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This seems like an overly simplistic way to look at it. You can't treat building a winning hockey team like you're trouble-shooting your car. "Well I've replaced the spark plugs, the cables and the distributor, so it must be the starter." It's entirely possible that from year to year there are different reasons the team doesn't meet expectations as the make up of the team, coaching staff, and progression/regression of players all change to varying degrees from year to year.
This isn't to say that Iginla and Kiprusoff are immune to criticism either, as their slow starts season to season obviously impact the team as a whole, but if the success/failure of your team relies solely on the backs of two players then there are bigger issues in the make up of the team as a whole.