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Originally Posted by flameswin
Slight hyperbole, but not that far off. We spent so many years "tinkering" with the line-up to try and put us into Stanley Cup contention after '04, by trading draft picks and younger players. Then when the stanley cup contender ship sailed, instead of starting over or thinking about getting younger, we continued "tinkering" with the line-up, instead now we were looking to add those final pieces to squeek into the playoffs year after year.
So yeah, decade long debacle would be a hyperbole, I guess, as those teams from '05-'08ish were certainly worth adding pieces to, to try and "win now", but there was a point when we needed to realize the ship had sailed and go a different direction, and that point wasn't the 2013 trade deadline.
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I think you are actually proving my point while disagreeing with me. You say 08, I would argue 09 was the last time this roster was worth tinkering with as you put it. Not pretending that we delivered any playoff success, but to suggest the Flames should have been taring it down post cup run, which is what the sentiment of "taking a decade" implies is ridiculous.
The Flames management has been miss reading what direction to take this team team since 2010, not 2004. It's 2013, not 2020, so suggesting a decade is massive hyperbole.