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Originally Posted by magicpixels
You just emphasized the main issue with most hockey fans on Calgary Puck. We look at a team on paper and think it's a good team. So what's wrong with Calgary?
1. Our Coach Sucks, nobody outside Calgary would have hired him.
2. Our star players are only getting older.
3. We have some weak guy on D.
4. Good chance Hudler, Cervenka, Baerstchi, Wideman don't score 20 goals combined.
5. We've had less than a week to learn an entire new system.
6. Our core players and team in general get off to slow starts.
See where this list goes. A lot of negatives regarding the flames as well as other teams. The flames have a range that most people have put them in and it's 11th to 14th. There isn't any inaccurate about that.
You are literally talking about 4-6 points being the difference between 9th and 14th place so there is nothing wrong with 14th and if anything you should be hoping we finish in that spot as it's going to give us a shot at MaKinnon, Drouin and Jones.
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Seth Jones, Nathan Mackinnon, and Jonathan Drouin are good players but I would rather the Flames play hard, give it their all and, perhaps, even fall short of the playoffs, then suck to the point of having a high probability of drafting first overall.
Having a top draft pick is not indicative of becoming a contender for a Stanley Cup, or even drafting the best player in his draft year. Drafting first overall is just indicative of having a bad team.
If the Flames are awful, so be it, but hoping to endure a season where games don't matter because the team is out of the playoff picture, and the players are just padding their stats for a new contract is not enjoyable.