Montreal also made the playoffs the 4 seasons prior to tanking last year. Plus, their goals for /against was better then the Flames last season despite being further behind in the standings. They also didn't sell off two of their best players at the deadline, and possibly lose another to retirement.
Calgary has to replace top line level players just to get back to competing for 9th.
They are done for a few seasons. At least the fans only had to go through 48 games of suck this year. That's pretty lucky.
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