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Originally Posted by Alberta_Beef
whatever helps you sleep better, you know as well as I do if it were the Oilers or Canucks in this situation people here would be all over them for it.
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All over them how? Making fun of them for sucking?
I think most intelligent fans realize rebuilding is one part of the life cycle of most teams. I don't think the Flames are tanking. Do I think they might be more willing to rest players than if we were in a playoff race? Of course, that's only natural. That's not tanking. Do I think they may start some bad backups at some point? Of course, that's only natural, Ortio isn't going to play every single game. Does it make sense to start our crappy backups vs the other bad teams? Yes it does, because it keeps competitive balance by us not folding to the good teams who are in playoff races.
I can't really agree if you call that blatant tanking. I think all those actions are perfectly logical and defendable for bottom tier teams to do at this point in the season. I think the whole tanking term is overused to some extent. Obviously BUF bottomed out last year but they made a lot of moves to improve this offseason. TOR bottomed out this year, guess we'll see what they do next. This and the Bennett year look like our two bottom out years and I'd expect us to be competing for a playoff race again next season.