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Originally Posted by Erick Estrada
A couple more years but as we saw with the Flames it closes real fast once the core gets in their 30's. The Flames window closed when Iggy and Kipper were a few years over 30 and didn't receive any help from a young infusion of talent. Looking at the Canucks prospects they don't have much help coming and like the Flames will lean on their vets too deep into their 30's. Most of the top teams have a good balance of veteran and young talent.
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It's not really an apt comparison because despite missing the playoffs 3 years in a row the Flames aren't much worse of a team than they ever were and have really only dropped a few spots in the league standings to end up where they are now. From 04-12, Calgary finished in the following spot leaguewide:
12th, 7th, 13th, 14th, 10th, 16th, 17th, 17th
Their last 3 years are only a slight drop off from where they were 5 years ago. They were always a bubble team that had to fight to even make the playoffs which is why they only managed to get home ice advantage once in the last decade. Not really the best comparable for a team coming off two 1st place finishes. San Jose would be a better comparable for Vancouver.