The simple fact is this management team is constantly fooling themselves, & more importantly the fans, into thinking that with a few tweaks this is a contending playoff team. Reality should be clueing people in but for whatever reason (fear of a season ticket holder revolt I suspect), they seem stubborn to the point of risking the integrity of their franchise.
No one is endorsing a full blown, burn it to the ground rebuild being required. I'm sure if you sat down over a few Scotch with Katz & Tambellini they'd admit that being forced into a bottom up rebuild on account of sucking so bad is not how they wanted to accomplish it but none the less that is what they reaped.
The only thing left for the Flames to do without completely dismantling what they have would be a "mid level' rebuild keeping GlenX, Gio, Brodie, Sven, Hudler, etc; then moving out Kipper, Iggy, JayBo, maybe Backlund for other younger prospects & picks.
You know that old saying about doing the same things & expecting a different result...
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