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Originally Posted by dammage79
Almost all nder 25? Sure you do. But that's neither here nor there. This was a major learning lesson for an inexperienced playoff team.
Give it a couple of weeks. Cooler heads will prevail. I promise.
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What did they learn exactly? No push back at all. They gave up in this game.
People like to say hold the course and hold steady but that's not how it works. People like to point at Washington and say look what happens when you keep the same core but you know what? Washington constantly made changes to their roster to try to get over the hump. You can't trade everyone and you might not want to trade most of your players, but there has to be changes when something doesn't work, and not just cosmetic changes.
Washington got rid of or let go guys like Green, Williams, Johansson, etc who were all very productive players, and brought in guys like TJ Oshie who was integral to their cup win. They realized a guy like Alzner who had been a warrior for them wasn't cutting it any more and let him go.
Yes, they kept Holtby and Ovechkin and Kuznetsov and Niskanen, but they were willing to move pieces in and out to get the right fit.
The Flames got embarrassed and changes need to be made. Not wholesale changes, because that doesn't happen, but changes. You can't just keep bringing back the same core group time after time, failure after failure, and hope they'll put it all together.