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Originally Posted by Ped
So what's the excuse for missing the playoffs the previous 3 years?
That often its no longer bad bounces or bad luck or 1 or two bad players. It's a bad team.
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If you have built your team around key performers (like Iginla, Kiprusoff and Bouwmeester) and they don't perform like the franchise players they are paid to be game in and game out, complacency sets in. The Flames weren't absolutely terrible over the last three years, they just were not good when it counted most. I believe this was what Sutter was alluding to when he said "these changes needed to happen".