I want the flames to win the cup, and I want them to make moves that furthers that goal. I am not going to be cheering for the Flames to lose, but I do want the Flames to be in a position where they have no other choice but to rebuild. That is the necessary step to get us a cup.
We are not going to make the playoffs this year. We are not going to make the playoffs next year, regardless of whether we keep all of our guys or we trade them off for picks/prospects. The important thing is the year after that. Either we're going to have a nice stable of the prospects we get in return from Iginla etc. + Drouin/Barkov + Baertschi etc., or we are going to have a slightly thinner group, which will cause us to have a longer rebuild. I'd prefer to minimize the whole suckage phase that we are in as much as possible, so we have to get more assets overall and that we can move on to possibly building a contender instead of being garbage for 10 years (we're in year 4 of that)
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