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Originally Posted by Enoch Root
We are not older, nor are we slower. Take a look at the 2012/13 Flames' roster. It was Jurassic. The top 8 forwards by points:
Cammalleri, Stempniac, Tanguay, Hudler, Glencross, Stajan, Iginla, Cervenka
The defense:
Wideman, Bouwmeester, Giordano, Brodie, Butler, Sarich
If we're less exciting to watch, that's style of play, which is hard to blame on the POHO.
As for cap room, we were a cap team then and a cap team now. I think the team is a lot less burdened with bad contracts now than they were then.
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The bolded players were jettisoned prior to BB coming in. Feaster was in the process of making over the team, to make it younger faster and cheaper(cap space). Under BB/BT this team has tried to fill holes by trading or signing older higher contract players and trading away draft picks. It has not been successful, nor does it bode well for the future. Good, sustaining teams build through the draft and trade away their older, higher cost players for draft picks so they can continue the cycle. the Flames are doing it backwards.