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Originally Posted by puckluck2
Oh please, you and a few others must have sore backs from patting yourselves on the back so much.
A lot of people saw the franchise heading in the wrong direction but the plan was "win now" and usually when that's the plan, a few years later you pay the price. We are now paying that price. But please stop pretending like you knew something no one else did, you just kept repeating the same point thinking nobody "gets it"...that's not hindsight, that's your ego.
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Exactly.
Also, to all those that felt they were right all along, three things:
1) just because going for it didn't work out, doesn't mean it wasn't right to try.
2) by all accounts that I have heard, Iginla would not have accepted a trade prior to this year. If that is the case, then any discussions with respect to a rebuild prior to this year are moot.
3) going for it, and acquiring more veterans in the attempt, actually aided the rebuild by stock-piling the Flames with more assets to move. Sure, Iginla is older (but see point 2) and Kipper (may have) rode into the sunset (but again, he would have in all likelihood not have accepted a trade either). But Bouwmeester got more than he would have. Cammalleri, Stempniak, Stajan and Tanguay are available to move this year. And Hudler, Wideman, Giordano and Glencross will be available to move in the next couple years.
So for anyone that's trying to pat themselves on the back, give it a rest already.