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Originally Posted by Mr.Coffee
I really don't think it's fair to call this fan base impatient given the franchise's track record over the last 20 years, when you view how much support the team has received in Calgary.
At what point are we suitably patient? Should we wait another 20 years with a couple playoff runs sprinkled unsuccessfully around? 30 years?
There is a reason this forum is "depressing" and why so many fans feel so let down ESPECIALLY this year. We had what so many of us thought were almost all the right fixes in the offseason yet here we are watching the same bull#### story.
The NHL is a young mans league now. If you look at our team we actually aren't even one of the younger ones. I suppose most of our stars are and let's hope that works out. But 20 games into the season we all thought was finally the one this group would turn some heads, and it's truly been an awful year. So the relentlessly glass half full folk I think should pump the brakes a bit on the constant condescending berating of people voicing honest disappointment thus far.
I guess since it feels like one must be compelled to be positive ad hoc about being 3-4 games below .500 with what on paper looked like a good roster, otherwise face ridicule, the one prospect I'm most excited about is Jankowski just based on the way they were talking about him on the radio the other day. Seems like he could be a legit (hopefully?) #1 centre.
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Half the fans on here are moaning and groaning about this being the darkest time they've ever experienced as Flames fans. Which means one of two things:
1. They are being overly dramatic and they lack patience with this rebuild.
2. Or, they likely haven't been fans (maybe due to age) for very long if this is the darkest times they can remember (although how anyone can find this darker than the hanging to Iggy, Kipper, Reg and Bow years before this rebuild is beyond me) and your "lack of patience" because of 30 years of limited playoff success doesn't apply.
Truth is, fans clamored for a rebuild, professed we'd have patience for it and want to grow our talent from within. We've actually been very lucky given our draft positions and with Gaudreau becoming who he is to have way better young talent on this team then any of us could have imagined at this point in the rebuild before it started. We made the playoffs 2 years ago falsely inflating expectations, and now everyone is bitching and moaning about the season and pretending that the playoffs 2 years didn't set false expectations, but rather that the progression simply isn't inspiring enough or quick enough.