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Originally Posted by Vinny01
A team that went from tha bubble to the playoffs is a team on the rise.
The roster improved in the sense they had a fair bit of high picks in the past we just traded for 2 players they took 5th overall.
I think last year bringing in Williams and Darling were supposed to be the moves that pushed them to the playoffs. Darling was bad and by all accounts was not in shape.
Like I said I am skeptical but remain optimistic. I am predicting the Flames make a run at the division title this year so I am excited but at this stage I would be more excited if we had AV for Sutter behind the bench. I really hope to eat crow here.
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They've missed the playoffs 9 straight years under 3 coaches.
There is no sense that they were improving the roster of the team.
They've had high picks but they've used them for
Noah Hanifin #5 in 2015 (on a good trajectory so far)
Hayden Fleury #7 in 2014
Elias Lindholm #5 in 2013
No first in 2012
Ryan Murphy #12 in 2011
So where was the improvement going to come from? They haven't had enough high end young talent to expect the improvement to come from within and they haven't invested in the current roster to keep good players (Staal) or bring in others.
If you look at the rosters over the BP era can you say that year over year there was any improvement in what he had to work with
http://www.hockeydb.com/ihdb/stats/l...009792015.html
http://www.hockeydb.com/ihdb/stats/l...009792016.html
http://www.hockeydb.com/ihdb/stats/l...009792017.html
http://www.hockeydb.com/ihdb/stats/l...009792018.html
It's a whole pile of meh. I'm hesitant to blame Francis as I don't know if he had any opportunity based on budgets. But he also didn't make a single player for player deal (if i recall).
So again, where was the improvement supposed to come from?