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Originally Posted by toquester
Well, I consider a team like Edmonton who began to rebuild with a defense completely in shambles and players like Horcoff underperforming and management bungling it with players like Glencross and I have to think the Flames are nowhere near that predicament.
The players I mentioned previously, have all had a pretty decent year overall as individuals. Add some capable and consistent goaltending over the year, and you may be looking at an entirely different scenario.
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While I agree with you that many mistakes were made (and continue to be made) up north during their rebuild, I don't agree that this team is in a much better spot then Edmonton was 3-4 years ago.
The sad reality for this team is that they no longer have any elite talent. Not in net (sorry Kipper, I love you, but you're not elite anymore), not on defence (maybe Brodie will be, but isn't yet) and certainly not up front. Feaster and Edwards can bring in all the "decent" players they want, but a collection of 20-25 goal scoring spare parts will not an elite team make. The Flames need elite talent, they realistically do not have the assets to trade for it, you can look to the UFA market and see it doesn't exist there, not this year anyways, so they will have to draft and develop it....which takes time. This thing is definitely going to take some time.