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Originally Posted by Eddie Bronze
I just wanted to say to the fans who paid for tickets and supported the team, and then to also become active members of the forum, I truly feel sorry your efforts didn't pay off and that you are losing your team. There's no way you can spin this to make it a good thing.
I hope the fans in the QC don't have hard feelings towards the parent team but if so, I certainly understand. It's disappointing as a Calgary fan to see the farm system lacking stability. I really believe they should have tried to make it work, for at least one more season at the minimum. I think it would have helped if they had won some games for you guys. I hope QC gets a new team and they do well for you.
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There are many fans that put the blame only on Calgary. To be honest, I think Flames organization should share a large part of the blame. Here's an example that I used when talking about it recently:
I go into a car lot, find a car that looks nice, drive it and like it. Then, the salesman comes to me and says, "Oh, if I were you, I wouldn't buy a car from us." To me, having the head coach of a team come out, in the newspaper, and say, "We are not very good," has the exact same effect. If someone is a more casual fan, why would he or she want to go see a game when the coach says the team isn't good?
In my opinion, QCSV made many mistakes and mismanaged the team. Add that to the remarks made by Sutter, King, et al in the papers, and you have a recipe for destruction. Add in the fact that the team was, and is, just not a top tier team, and it becomes a ready made failure. For the last two years, the QC Flames have been a lower escholon team. They are five spots from the bottom right now. The fans that I have talked to have been pretty much in agreement, there is no upside to keeping Calgary's AHL team here.