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Originally Posted by transplant99
I doubt there will be many players heading back to Calgary at the deadline but more than a couple heading out...so none of that settling in stuff really matters at this end.
Trade values are always higher as the TD closes in....on top of which there is a trade freeze during the Olys so Burke and his brethern will have that time to swing deals...and in Burkes case hopefully start teams bidding against one another for whomever is getting dealt.
As for Hartley i dont think the team has tuned him out at all....but even if they have, again, firing him now makes no sense. This teams next coach is not likely available til the season ends/summer anyhow, so forcing them to learn a whole new system this year only to have it change once again come September is almost counter productive.
Its a rebuild....complete and total. Those rarely are anything but ugly and now that the reality of it is showing, people want changes. There really is nothing to change right now that will make the difference people want to see.
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I don't mean settling into Calgary, I mean teams around the league in general probably see an advantage/premium to get a guy (rentals or not) in a week before the Olympics, meaning an extra 4 or 5 games, but an extra calender month of real time getting to know teammates, etc. And I meant specifically for teams scooping up some Flames, particularly Cammalleri.
There won't be the new long term full time coach until the new GM is picked at earliest, but how much rope can a coach get with the way they are playing now? Another month? It's not the "5-2 Ok effort, just out skilled" , seen the first couple months (and what I personally am fine with as a rebuilding team and plan) , it's almost two weeks of the worst hockey seen in 12+ years with beyond putrid offense and a team that looks to now playing out the string. Throw in the Brian Burke potential impaitent-ness factor of getting licked at home and on the road it's not shocking to think Hartley doesn't last until mid April if things don't take even a slight uptick here in the next while.