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Originally Posted by Cleveland Steam Whistle
I think what you are failing to acknowledge is lifecycle point of the team and correlation to deadline moves. This is the first year BT has likely thought it even worth considering a deadline move to improve the club, and certainly the first it would have potentially helped. He didn’t like the prices or he got outbid this year.....but I don’t think we know that he needs to change his strategy, we still need to see what it is now we have a team fully in its window.
This is the problem with cheering for an org. tgat has not delivered much playoff success over the decades, the fans base patience and timelines are often miss aligned with realities of the current version of the team, which puts pressure on everyone from manager to players to have to be ahead of schedule or feel like they need to make up for others failures.
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I view it as three seasons of deadline failure. This year the team didn't add the right pieces at the deadline. Maybe they were shopping and were out bid? Maybe guys didn't want to come to Calgary? Maybe they didn't want to spend what was required? In any case I view those as Management failures. Last year, if I recall correctly, the Flames were a wild card bubble team going into the deadline. They could have been in on the deadline action and made a strong push for the playoffs but they sat back and watched and had a terrible stretch drive causing them to miss the playoffs. 2017 was the same sit back and watch attitude at the deadline with a team that was borderline playoff contention.
Treliving, or whomever, is just too timid to make bold moves at the right times.