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Originally Posted by madmike
He's been mediocre.
To be fair, I think some of his first contracts (like Raymond, Engellund, Bollig) were designed more to help the Flames hit the cap floor and be off the books by the time the Flames were ready to compete than to be legit signings for a contending team.
The Flames just happened to get better much faster than expected, which means these contracts are proving to be a bit of a pain.
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If this season should teach us anything, it is that the Flames didn't "get better much faster than expected". They overachieved last year, and that was obvious even without having a fanatical obsession with analytics. This season has been a correction.
What we should be hoping for is that Calgary follows a trajectory like the Isles did. They unexpectedly made the playoffs in 2012-13 then fell off a cliff the next year. However, that poor season did not change the fact that the pieces were coming together. The Isles were a strong team last year, and are a safe bet to make the playoffs this year. Two steps forward, one back, two forward. That's what we want the Flames to do at this point.