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Originally Posted by Badgers Nose
The parallels between this team and where the Leafs were a few years ago is remarkable.
IMO Flames will be the same type of team - sell outs galore, poor on ice product, no chance of a championship. Low standards and high profits.
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i don't think the flames have the luxury of the bleed blue fan base that toronto has.
The dome has been a library the last few times i've been there, and it will only get worse if the team isn't infused by winning or a change in attitude. I think there will be more fans willing to go see exciting youth and top prospects that lose but hopefully show promise rather than the same substandard on-ice product year after year. Management has to realize at some point, you'd hope, that the glitter from the 2004 cup run is gone.
Selling us on kipper/iginla as the premiums players to take us back to the promised land is starting to feel a bit ridiculous considering its been almost a decade since the cup run.