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Originally Posted by Roof-Daddy
I'm as bitter as the next Flames fan guys, but "in the same spot they were 5 years ago?"
Really?
5 years ago our top scorers were:
Cammalleri who was 30
Stempniak who was 29
Tanguay who was 32
Hudler who was 28
Glencross who was 29
This year they were:
Gaudreau who is 24
Monahan who is 23
Tkachuk who is 19
Backlund who is 28
Hamilton who is 24
The team has been rebuilt, and we have really good young core. Now, hopefully Treliving can do something positive with it going forward, but we are not in the same spot at all.
As for missing the playoffs 3 out of 5, that was supposed to happen anyways during the rebuild. The only thing that's messed up is the order in which it happened.
In 2014/15 we should have never been anywhere near the playoffs, never mind won a round, and this year we shouldn't have missed. Progress isn't always linear, and sometimes #### happens. It sucks, but hopefully this is the last time we miss for a good long time.
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And after all that hard work Feaster did of shedding our team of all those high salaries and older players, BT under the BB era decided to sign/trade for;
Mason Raymond 28
Brandon Bollig 27
Jonas Hiller 32
Brian Elliot 31
Chris Versteeg 30
Niklas Backstrom 37
Troy Brouwer 31
And our payroll went from 56 million to 73 million.