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Originally Posted by Badgers Nose
Agreed. It never hurt 80's Flames. Those teams were a b***h to get on.
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But those teams were a b**tch to get on because they were great and everyone knew they were hard to get on because you had to knock off someone that's better than you. You were looking to knock off Doug Gilmour...not Setaguchi or Byron or Jones or Colborne.
It's naturally a lot harder to accept when you get sent down by a team who will be fighting for last, and your play has been better than the guys who are staying up. To not make a team like the Flames must be pretty deflating.
The only reason the "over-ripen" strategy worked with prospects in Detroit is because the NHL team itself was great and there was an argument to keep the status quo. That's a lot harder to back up on a team that is fighting for last telling everyone that they are functioning under an egalitarian system.