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Originally Posted by calgarygeologist
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.
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I think you could be right about this year. But last years team was not worth paying deadline deal prices on to squeak into the playoffs. I also think BT correctly identified not selling the future of this team short when the window hadn’t really begun. If this years team required tweaking to have playoff success (and it clearly did) last years team would have required a complete overhaul because it was half the team this years version was. Literally knowing what we know because we’ve actually seen the results, how can you possibly have wanted BT to waste our future to maybe squeak in last year? That would be repeating the failures of the Sutter era Flames, I’m glad he didn’t do tgat.