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Originally Posted by JD
Well Treliving has yet to trade away a Conn Smythe winner and decline to re-sign a Hart and Art Ross winner who would later dagger in our hearts in Game 6 of the Cup Finals. But other than that pretty much the same.
Does that mean we get to overreact to every preseason goal against and most especially when we lose the first game of the season? The Flames can never afford to come out of the gate cold... they have mortgaged our emotional bank accounts!
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Truthfully, the Flames can't afford to come out of the gate cold. No team with playoff and Stanley Cup aspirations can. It takes crazy things like 10 game win streaks to move up the standings 3-4 points thanks to the point system.
I hope the China trip also forces Tree to finalize his roster early in the summer, unlike previous years. We need to move beyond the discount bin signings at the very last moment before the season starts. Fix the team and get it in place early. Tree has struggled with his rosters to start the year every single year he's been here, and it has impacted the team.