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Originally Posted by EddyBeers
Players still here from the 2009/2010 season:
Iginla
Kipper
Bouwmeester
Giordano
Glencross
Stajan
Backlund
Sarich
and now McGratton
9 players remained, 14 new players. That is pretty much an overhaul.
I suppose they could trade the other 8 players not named Iginla and have a complete overhaul, but they have already tried the overhaul with Iginla here approach.
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There is no such thing as an overhaul if you don't remove at least one of the bolded players above. An overhaul isn't about volume, it's about impact, and the "key success" factors for this team haven't changed in years. Phauneuf is really the only key player that has been moved off of this team and swapped with Bow, which is the closest we've come to an overhaul.
The tinkering with the support players means nothing. Every year since 09 the key to the Flames success has always been the following:
- Iginla is the key forward and is leaned on for results
- Bowmeester needs to be the top D man we pay him to be
- Kipper will have to be one of the best goalies in the world.
- Flames relying on a handful of former "20 goal scorers" to re-find their form and provide support.
Those have been the things you could say about the Flames every year for the past 4 if we were going to find success. They haven't changed in any year, meaning this team actually hasn't tried anything different and hasn't overhauled at all.
The tinkering although high in volume, would be the equivalent of replacing all the forks in a restaurant and calling it a complete renovation with a grand re-openning if you want to say the Flames have overhauled. The Phaneuf deal was the last time this team changed anything of significance on ice.