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Originally Posted by Flash Walken
To me, this is the most underdiscussed aspect of why the flames are where they are at.
Someone referenced earlier that the Elliot trade was ok because the Flames needed a #1 goalie.
I feel like, wait a second, why exactly did they need a #1 goalie? They just stunk out the joint the year before. Bennett was only 19. They still had hot garbage like Wideman and Raymond and Bollig on the roster the year before. They had 2 defenders in their top 5 in scoring.
Why did they 'need' to add Lazar and Stone at the deadline? This was early in the rebuild?
That's what is so damning to me. It's not just missing on trading away picks, it's trading away picks in the first place when your team has no business trying to compete.
If you have an asset deficit 6 years into your tenure as General Manager, it's because you created one.
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They just paid their top 2 young players big money and failed to go max term with Gaudreau so the clock was ticking. Had these players still been on ELC that would be one thing but they earned their raises. Johnny was just 7th in scoring as a sophomore and Monahan had his second straight 60+pt season at 21.
They just drafted elite prospect in NHL ready Matthew Tkachuk.
This team is also looking at 4 playoff appearances in 6 years. So you are arguing in hindsight they should have taken the Jets approach to shuffle the chairs on the deck and do nothing but draft and develop. In 9 years since moving to Winnipeg they have 3 playoff appearances and did win 2 rounds once but look nowhere near cup contenders today and traded their last 2 1st rounders for guys that bailed after the season