1. On paper our center depth is beyond brutal
2. Our two best and most prolific players are not only on the wrong side of 30, but actually the wrong side of 35 now
3. Three straight years out of the playoffs
4. Only one high profile rookie/young player in Sven (Backlund, Brodie and Cervenka don't count when compared to the plethora of stupendous young talent that the buttheads up north have failed their way into)
5. A string of sub par seasons (when compared to those players performances in the past) from many Flames players including Cammalleri, Bouwmeester, Stajan, Stempniak, Comeau etc.
All of those are adding up to worse and worse pre-season beatings from prognosticators and "experts" everywhere.
I really can't blame them, and neither can the Flames organization IMO.
Over the course of the last three years, this team has earned the beat down it's currently receiving from the media.
Up to the players to go out and prove them all wrong.
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