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Originally Posted by Classic_Sniper
Funny, 15-16 didn't seem like a scorched earth rebuild when we traded away a 1st and two 2nds for Dougie. That team had similar expectations to be better than the previous year, yet finished 5th last and gave up the most goals allowed in the entire NHL.
My main point of that post was to point out that 14-15 season with all the comebacks was an outlier of a season where everything went right. Hartley gets a lot of praise for building a never say die attitude, but really, outside of 1 season, there really wasn't much of that.
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Come on man. It was fairly common knowledge he Flames defied several statistics the year before to make playoffs. A drop off was absolutely expected. Treliving wanting to reward the team and build for the future used thst summer to trade picks thst were locked in for a 22 year old former top 10 pick that was absolutely living up to the hype.
I get your point but we have all watched this team under Hartley and Gulutzan. Hartley’s teams appeared to have an identity and we knew they were going g to work hard every game. Gulutzan’s team looked great at points and pathetic at others. Which team will show up? Well if it was a massive game we knew it would be the crappy version but other games it was a toss up