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Originally Posted by Caged Great

Because everything went correctly last season. Now we are not getting any secondary scoring, our best defenseman is trying to recover from a serious arm injury on the fly with terrible results, our passable goaltending is not playing at a passable level, and our former 3/4 guys are playing like #6's.

All the positive luck we received last year is firmly working against the Flames this year.

It's not a big deal. We received Hamilton because we were good last season. If he continues to play as he has the past two games, which is more like how he played all season in Boston the last two years, it would be like getting a top 5 pick defenseman in spite of reaching the 2nd round of the playoffs.

If you add any of the top 5 pick players to the Flames stable and Jankowski who is ripping the NCAA apart, then the Flames will have 7 key young players between the new pick, Janko, Monahan, Gaudreau, Bennett, Brodie, and Hamilton. The team will be in a good position in the future.

We're in a good spot in terms of the rebuild, just not having a good season at all. Los Angeles had a year like this when they were on the upswing and ended up getting Doughty. If the Flames walk away at the end of the season with Matthews, that would probably have the same impact. Imagine him and Gaudreau together. That'd be fun.

I agree, I just always wanted Macdavid. Oh well I agree, we over achieved last year and we are still in full rebuild mode. Lets hope Gillies and Macdonald can develop too.