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Originally Posted by Wild GM
This just doesn't jive.
- This management group hasn't done a lot historically at the deadline. They get their work done in the summer. So it isn't unusual or a shift in behavior not to see a big change at the TDL
- We don't know that they didn't TRY to do something.
- The prices paid at the deadline were steep for adding quality players.
I don't think they shifted their strategy. The fan base reacts (or over-reacts) to the day to day, but it seems clear to me that the GM and management are taking a longer view. I don't see the lack of a deadline deal, that probably would have been a poor one in the long-term, signals a shift in how they look at this team since they re-signed Backlund.
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Signing Backlund signaled that they thought that this was winning team and locked all the core in for the next 3 years.
And then they decided to go with 2 rookie goalies down the stretch?
Take a step away and say it was San Jose or LA or Colorado were going to go with a couple of rookie goalies with a total of 26 NHL games between them with their #1 on IR.
Pretty sure that the consensus would be that the non-Flames team's management looked and said this was not a team that was ready for the playoffs..... basically writing off the season.
Riitch was not good enough to cover for the weak zone coverage last night but would be shocking he and Gillies don't actually lose a couple of games.