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Originally Posted by toquester
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".
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The trouble was though they didn't build a team around anything, there was never a sense of plan, just a hope that somehow Iginla could score enough and Kipper could keep enough out that picking up random pieces on the UFA market would suffice.
To be frank had they built a team around Iginla it would still perform without him, all be it at a lower pace, its the fact it is a hodge podge of players with no appreciable identity that is why it is as lousy as it is now