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Originally Posted by Poe969
so we will be better by maybe having better players.... Leadership; we lost cammy who was high scoring "vet" and replaced him with Raymond; I don't see how leadership has improved, if anything we lost leadership. Coaching; went from Hartley to...Hartley. I can see how we've improved there. Youth...well you said that we improved leadership and then said youth so unless we improved leadership by having less of it. Young players might make a difference, it might also kick us in the butt. Playing 82 games is going to take its toll on young players who aren't used to it or aren't used to the game so we may get better because of youth but we may also get worse because of it. Banking on Glencross being healthy isn't a safe bet and even if he is healthy, betting on him being a difference maker isn't a safe bet either. Better goaltending (maybe)? Again we may have got better but we may have got worse....I don't see Hiller as that much (if any) of an improvement in net.
It's ok to say that you just have a feeling they'll be better but you can understand why people would be hesitant since on paper it looks like a bad team became worse in the Flames case.
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Yeah fair enough, I get why you think they will suck ... Most do.
I did say that I think we will be better than those teams because of our leadership (Gio mainly) coaching and an influx of some more good youth (hopefully). I didn't mean to insinuate that we have improved substantially in those areas, but I also don't believe we are any worse either.
Hey I know I'm in the minority here in regards to possible improvement (red colored glasses lol)
Gio is an incredible captain that leads by example, every single night (one of the better leaders in the league) I don't put much stock in losing Cammy or gaining Raymond tbh. I also believe we have one of the best coaches in the league. Add in another year for colborne, monahan, backlund, and Brodie, add in some more GOOD young talent, Gaudreau, Poirier, or Grandlund possibly, maybe Bennett. They were 'in' almost every game, tons of one one goal games. This was with Gio, Glencross, Ramo out for a period of time. Even cammalleri and wideman were out for awhile. Hiller has to be an improvement on Berra. Berra cost us quite a few games.
Anyways, Like I said I know I'm in the minority here, but I like what's happening and I stand by my call and I believe the flames will be better in the standings than the oilers, jets, Canucks 😃. It's okay to disagree tho.
Part of me hopes I'm wrong ................ McDavid