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Originally Posted by CorsiHockeyLeague
Irrelevant. The point is that a team can click on all cylinders one year, and the next year, the spark just isn't there. Usually, it doesn't happen like Dallas (going from 2nd to 24th). But often, you do see a team that's near the top of the league fade into "also-ran" status the following year, despite still being a playoff lock.
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Yes, and a team can also become better as its core gets more experience and become good perennially, like Nashville, Tampa bay, Toronto, Washington, and countless others. A team could also fade into mediocrity. These things all happen all the time and every year, and no evidence you’ve provided shows that the flames are fated to fall to 24th place and that this is the only chance they have. I have attempted to show how, given their relative youth and already excellent performance, it’s more likely they trend toward Nashville than Dallas. Even if they become a worse playoff team next year, so what? Improve at the deadline then.
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That's a pretty crazy thing to say. They're first in the West and 2nd in the NHL, and the only team ahead of them right now is on pace for 130 points, which would be the best season in about 20 years and in the conversation for the best ever. And you think there's no argument that this is as good as things are likely to get? Where, from here, is up, according to you? This is like Eugene Melnyk prophesying a "5 year run of unparalleled success" when the record for most cups won in a 5 year run is 5... Good luck topping that one, Eugene.
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Ok, there is an argument for their being worse but I’m not seeing one from you outside ‘it happened to some other teams completely unlike the current flames in their development cycle.’ Of course there are no guarantees and they could go the way of the senators, there are no guarantees that stocking up this year would win them the cup either.
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There's very little realistic room for improvement here. Sure, maybe they'll win the President's trophy, but I'd say it's more likely that they're a good team for a few years. And I don't think losing a 1st and / or Dillon Dube is going to change that.
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And I’d say being a good team for a few years and building up more assets is better than going all in your first year, agree to disagree I guess