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Originally Posted by Sylvanfan
One playoff appearance in the last 7 years is pathetic. Obviously most of this falls on Daryl Sutter losing his marbles in 2009 and than Feasters reign of failure.
There's likely one more year of house cleaning to get the roster in shape. But they better have a 6-7 year sustained run of success to follow up what has been an awful stretch of futility.
Really outside of Edmonton who else can claim one playoff appearance in 7 seasons. Columbus, Toronto, Winnipeg/Atlanta. Not exactly flattering company to be associated with.
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I don't disagree with your big picture / organizational thoughts. It's been rough time for the Flames as an Org. since 2009. But really, getting upset about things that happened before this team acknowledged the rebuild was needed and took a new direction isn't really worth thinking about at this point.
For example, deciding missing this year isn't acceptable because 7 years ago the team made some bad decisions and missed a bunch isn't logical. Missing this year is no more or less acceptable because of what happened back then. Missing this year should only really be evaluated on what it means to the rebuild and new direction of this club, which started 3 years ago. Given most of your young players improved this year, and just how thin the line is between making and missing, while disappointing, I'm not too worried on what this season means big picture.