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Originally Posted by Erick Estrada
I hope for the best which is wins but I understand most nights it's probably not in the cards and losing is always frustrating but losing the way the Flames organization is extremely frustrating because we know there's no help coming on the horizon and in fact the team is trending downwards.
The difference is that I don't get mad at people for being positive. People like you get upset when people like be bring up the real issues. A lot of you don't like me because I've was saying the same stuff years ago and the team has followed the path I said they would which has made it difficult for any of you to stick it to me because I've been right. However this really isn't about who's right or wrong. It's about the Flames doing the right thing. If the Flames do the right thing and trade Iggy, Kipper, or whatever and draft multiple first round talents and pick up a prospect or two nobody will be more happy or positive going into the 2013/2014 season than me I can assure you.
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Many casual people around the city just enjoy the team winning. Sure, not happy when losing, but that's not being people simpleminded and "aloof to reality" as you intimate, or people not wanting to deal with it because they're not smart enough to figure out why or see the bigger picture. Issues are there, most people know there's lots of issues and its complicated, its just people would rather focus on the positive for something they've got nothing except some emotional equity invested it.
Certainly no one needs to not only have more negativity in our lives to worry about, we certainly don't need to constantly day in and day out predict/analyze/dissect that external negativity, or be told by someone that we should be reminded how bad things are or are going to be, for a hockey team that really doesn't matter day to day, in the bigger picture of people's day to day lives either.
As for the bolded part, many ways to skin a cat. I hope that's not the one and only "reality" (if that's what you're trying to say) of what you think it will take to put the franchise on the right path. Iginla's still the best forward out there and the replacement won't bring nearly as much as what he means to the Flames on the ice, nevermind the external circumstances.
Kiprusoff gets the benefit of the doubt until its proven that one of the Euro goalies like Ramo is the real deal, and that's just not avoiding reality; until we have a bigger sample then 7 or 8 games, after a non existent training camp (he never was the guy to need to work hard in the offseason, and the training camp got him ready in a regular season)and first injury in a decade to deal with, after his last decade of solid play, you can't yet write him off. That, and how many contenders are going to give up much for a backup (which is what he'd be on a team that is already a contender, barring injury) at the trade deadline?
If it were up to me and it was time to move a top player if the Flames are sellers in the next 3.5 weeks, Bouwmeester and/or to a lesser extent Giordano would be the reluctant targets that could fetch the most at this moment in time as far as pics and prospects.