The problems are many but Iginla and Kiprusoff are not apart of it.
The biggest problem this team has had is that they drafted poorly for at least a decade (closer to 2 decades). This problem spiraled and spawned other problems.
The poor drafting forced the team to acquire talent via trade and free agency. When you get players via trade you are forced to move at least some picks in the process. Building via trade also means you have to make more trades than teams with talent in their prospect pipeline which increases the chances of bad trades (every team makes em but bad trades are more common when you have to make more deals to stay competitive). When you get players via free agency you have to essentially be a top bidder so you have to overpay in dollars (and in cap hit) and like with trades the more free agents you sign, the more poor signings you will see.
If the Flames had drafted better we would have had better (and cheaper) talent and would have had the cap space and assets to being in the players we would have needed to put this team over the top.
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