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Originally Posted by Tinordi
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.
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Fair enough. But Flames fans are not dumb.
Ya, everything fell into place perfectly in 14/15 where the Flames finished 16th in regular season standings. And then in another stroke of good luck, they drew the Canucks in round one which was a ticket to round two. Miracle season and a mediocre season all at the same time. Yay. It was fun.
They punched above their weight in 14/15 so regression in 15/16 was understandable. But regression meant playing out the string starting half way through the season. And now things seem to have gotten even worse. The 16/17 Flames are done. Might as well start a reverse standings draft watch thread.
I'm not saying fire the GM or trade everyone. I'm saying that this is not going according to plan. And if this is the plan, the plan sucks.
I fully agree that the Flames are two three years away from competing but what worries me is that two or three years ago we were saying the same thing.