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Originally Posted by saillias
Agreed. There seems to be a lot of denial of just how bad we are right now. This isn't just "expected, meh rebuilding." This is a team that made roster upgrades that is an absolute tire fire and tied for dead last in the league.
http://www.flamesfrom80feet.ca/2015/...-dreadful.html |
Everything, and I mean everything, that could go right did go right last season.
How many times do you see this happening as well. Young team that nobody thought would do anything surges and makes the playoffs only to be out of it for a couple of seasons after.
Remember the alacrity that some posters had at the suggestion that maybe the Flames of last year were the Avalanche of two years ago? Turns out, maybe that's true. Maybe the Flames got extremely lucky and are now extremely unlucky. The fabled regression that many had the Flames in store for is here.
The bottom line is that the team isn't near talented enough. Not last season, not this season and that's why we're still rebuilding.
I don't hold any one accountable. I don't think Hartley deserved all the credit he got last year, nor the blame he's receiving this year. I think Treliving still managed to nab a major piece of the rebuild landing Hamilton last year even though we finished high in the standings and traded our 1sts to get him. I'm glad we only appear to have tied ourselves to one over-performing player from that season in Giordano, and frankly, if there was a least-bad player to commit to, it was him.
So yeah, re-calibrate your expectations. The timeline was always five years (at least) irregardless of short-term setbacks and accomplishments.