if I recall, McPhee even took some criticism for *not* assembling the absolute best possible roster. didn't they select way too many defensemen with the intention of holding a big old auction, only too find out they couldn't get rid of the glut as easily as they thought?
honestly if you looked at that lineup last June and thought to yourself "whoa, they have gone way too far with this, that's a cup contender!!" then you should quit your job now and send your resume to some NHL teams because you know stuff that almost nobody else in the hockey universe does.
most of all, this is sports, and sports owes you a "fair" expansion team performance about as much as it owes you a championship contending Flames team for your 30 years of suffering...i.e. not at all.
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