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Originally Posted by Table 5
An integral requirement of being a Flames fan. It's the most annoying part of our fan-base... from reporters, to PBP guys, to the NHL, we think everyone is out to get us.
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I do think there has been a media bias against the organization since Dion got traded. Having said that many of those moves were comical from an outsider perspective
1. Dion traded for trash from a bad team
2. Jokinen and Prust traded for a overpaid guy who was a healthy scratch 9 games before the deal
3. Stajan contract
4. Bringing Jokinen back
5. Intellecual honesty
6. Regehr trade
7. bringing in Cammy, Hudler, Wideman when it was apparent a rebuild should have started
8. Jankowski pick and saying they believe he is the best player in the draft
9. RoR offer sheet
10. Iginla/Bos/Pitt trade fiasco
11. Feaster stating his mandate is to make the playoffs after trading away their best forward and D (taken out of context)
It seems the media, message board trolls ate up many of those things. The Flames were an easy team to make a punch line but I do believe the media perception is changing due to a few factors:
1. Committment to rebuild
2. Brian Burke hiring
3. recent drafting (Sven, Monahan, Gaudreau, Wortherspoon)
4. Team identity (comeptitive, hard to play against)
5. Current cap position (46 contracts, ample cap space, free reign to spend to the cap, and not handing out ridiculous contracts)
6. Sublte solid trades (Colborne, Knight, Galliardi, Russel)
7. giving the kids a chance