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Originally Posted by ricardodw
The very worst teams , up til now, resulted in a 25th place finish in 1995-96 only 8 pts out of the playoffs and 12 pts clear of the basement.
In 1996-97 was worse 26th overall but 23 points out of last and 11 pts out of the playoffs.
This year train wreck 6 pts out of the basement and 13 pts out of the playoffs.
There is no metric that would show that this team is not the worst team in Flames history.
What makes it even worse is that this Flames team is spending very near to the top of the league, when the other past teams were spending about 50% of what the top spending teams were spending.
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This team has the worst goaltending in Flames history.
The team itself is not the worst in history.
Also, look where a huge chunk of that cap spending is being distributed. It's all on veteran depth players who aren't very good, or out right terrible. I'd be more concerned if the big bulk of that was being spent on our "future" core while the team was still terrible, like up north in Edmonton.
Wideman, Smid, Raymond, Engelland, Stajan, Bollig, and two goalies who were putrid. All of those expire this off season or next except Stajan. That alone makes the fact the Flames were a cap team this year a non-factor going forward.