[ComixZone]

The Flames haven’t been a very good team all year. They spent significant assets to get the team to where it is, which is effectively exactly where they were one year ago.

It’s hard for me not to view this team as taking a step back for unknown reasons, because addressing the roster the way Tree did in the off-season should have given the team ammunition to be better. Instead, they’re not. Today looked like a day where we could improve in a meaningful way...and we didn’t, but you certainly do have to look at it with a critical eye and ask “should we send more assets out to try and fix what ails the team”, which the answer is probably no. This team has leadership problems (inconsistency, motivation), and bringing in Evander Kane wouldn’t have fixed that - but maybe it could have helped them lessen the impact of their current shortcomings.

Hopefully in the off-season we see the leadership problems addressed. Not sure if that’s in the captains, coaches, roster, or whatever - but there’s certainly a good level of failure baked into this roster right now.

They’ve firmly planted themselves in the underdog role for this year given what rivals have done in the past 2 weeks - and that’s sometimes a good motivational tool. Hopefully it works, as I've recently express my frustrations with being a fan of this organization to the degree that I am given it's complete lack of success. Hopefully things come together, because as Tree said today (paraphrased) "sometimes tomorrow doesn't come". Hopefully "tomorrow" does come, and it's what we hoped for when we rebuilt the roster. I just want to see the team have measured levels of success, rather than what we've historically been witness to.