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Originally Posted by Bingo

I just don't get the need to think everything is broken during a losing streak. Four straight games have sucked, there is little debate on that topic. But now the current players suck, the coach sucks, the GM sucks, the old GM sucks, the team president sucks, the prospect base has failed ...

it's too much.

When the Flames went 9-1-1 I was even keeled enough to know that they were cashing in on some pretty solid bounces. They were playing well, but they couldn't sustain that.

Now they are getting every conceivable bounce against them and it's broken their spirit.

That's the issue to me ... a dry spell where the team learns something about manning up. Not Stajan and Engelland, but the younger core. It happens every year to almost every team.

It's a good hockey team, with a coach that I'm coming around to. Things will be fine. I had them at a bubble team this year, guess what that's exactly what they are. It's a transitional season for young core players to get better and some bad contracts to come off the books.

I didn't necessarily envision the bubble team arriving here by looking awful then unbeatable, then average and then terrible but they've pretty much done what I expected.

I can't argue with fan passion, but it does make me shake my head sometimes.