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Originally Posted by Tinordi
You're not winning any Cups without playing a solid system. If that means you burn a season learning the system then so be it. But if you're going to then burn it to the ground and get another high pick.
Otherwise, many of the complainers should take a look in the mirror. This is what happens when your expectations meet reality. This year's team is essentially last year's bad team with a better goalie and an expensive role-playing winger as the only changes. Way too much stock was put into the Flames' young players making another significant step this season. That didn't happen, and frankly it was a long shot to expect it to happen anyway.
My point is that, in retrospect, this team was likely not going places anyway this year. If that is the case then may as well make it a development year in forcing the players to learn to play as an NHL team in 2015 in the cap era instead of the 2000-01 Avalanche.
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At best, I thought this year the team would have an outside chance of squeaking into the playoffs. At worst, finishing bottom 3.
Did other people have higher expectations than that?