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Originally Posted by Mister Yamoto
If I told you four years ago, that by the third year into the Flames rebuild they'd be 30th in winning% you'd likely be overjoyed?
Yes by all means, take a look at how far the organization has come. Expecting small improvements during a rebuild is not dumb. It is the dictionary definition of the word rebuild. Two straight seasons of regression is not rebuilding. Find a different word for what the Flames are doing.
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This is exactly what I'm talking about. You've chosen the worst baseline to set your expectations. When the Flames made the playoffs they were by many statistical metrics an ALL TIME lucky team. Fans back then were beyond dumb in assessing that season. The Flames got really lucky for a stretch of 50 games. A stretch that no other team in the history of the league has been able to accomplish.
To believe that regressing from that season is a failure of management is like saying that the reason you're losing at the bingo hall is because you aren't blotting the squares well enough.
As another note, in the rebuild I don't much care about winning. I care about setting up winning which is by building. Winning is nice but it's incidental. So if you told me in year three of the rebuild the Flames were a losing team, that wouldn't disappoint me. What would disappoint me is if stupid decisions were being made to win now. Such as holding onto Wideman and Hudler in what was clearly career years for them. Stupid.