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Originally Posted by Tinordi
If I told you four years ago, that by the third year into the Flames' rebuild they'd have a top 10 scoring winger, two very promising and young top centres and two young top pairing D all locked down for the next 4-6 years you'd likely be overjoyed.
All the anger that you have is just irrational fan expectations. Take a look back at how far the organization has come. Expecting to be a playoff contender after 3 years of rebuilding is frankly just dumb. Look how long it takes most teams, it aint 3 years and it certainly aint 3 years for teams that were as badly managed by Sutter/King/Feaster years.
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little generous here.
One top 10 scoring winger - Yes
2 promising centers - One and a half, none of which are looking like legitimate #1's.
Two Young Top Pairing D? - One and one that will HOPEFULLY be able to turn into a reliable 2nd pairing guy. Scoring a lot of points doesn't forgive his gaffs.
It's not been 3 years of rebuilding by the way.
Traded Iginla, Tanguay, Sarich and Bouwmeester and drafted Monahan in 12/13. Had all of those trades worked out we could've been competitive a lot earlier so you have to count that as year 1 of the rebuild.
12/13 - Year 1 (25th)
13/14 - Year 2 (27th)
14/15 - Year 3 (16th)
15/16 - Year 4 (26th)
16/17 - Year 5 (Currently 30th in p/pg)
So no, if you told me when we traded Iginla, that 4 years later we'd be 30th at American Thanksgiving and that we had 1 sure fire first liner, 1 sure fire first pairing D, That we had 33 year old Giordano signed for 6 more years at nearly 7 million a year and he was playing like garbage, and then some decent young 2nd line players, I would not be happy.
Gaudreau, Brodie, Tkachuk are the 3 players I'm excited about for this team at the moment. Hopefully Monahan bounces back and brings that number up to 4.... 4 players in 4 years since Iginla. One of whom was already here.