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Originally Posted by Frank MetaMusil
It's an easy argument when you don't pay them though.
If Brouwer wasn't a move to immediately make them better, Treliving must have had a gun to his head. His leadership isn't worth trying to develop talent for less money.
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A few thoughts:
- One, we are all upset right now as this team is on a downward skid, and in fairness they don't look like they can recover. But truth is, the Flames are still a team fighting for a playoff spot and they may very well end up in one at the end of the year, so who knows if they improved or not yet, all we know for sure is this is not a contender yet, which is something we shouldn't have thought them to be.
- We don't know that the owners aren't ok with investing in a Brouwer just to make the young guys better in the long run (theoretically). We don't know if they view it as worth it or not.
- I do believe that Brouwer (and others) were brought in not just to "help" for future, but to also help this team actually win over the course of that contract. I also believe that they figured this team will get better each year of those contracts thus maximizing the value of having a guy like Brouwer around the most at the end of his term. If this team misses the playoffs this year, I'm sure this org will view it as a failure (as they should) as I'm sure a step back to the playoffs was the step they expected them to take on their way to actually becoming a contender a few years from now. But I don't believe anyone involved with this team (including owners) were actually expecting a contender this year, playoffs probably, contender I very much doubt it.