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Originally Posted by Flash Walken
Tre is part of the core group in my mind.
If they don't win a cup this year, I would start fresh with the entire management team, trade major pieces at the draft purely for picks, go into next season knowing the team might be Detroit levels of bad and initiate a proper rebuild that doesn't have the flames trading away an entire.drafts worth of picks by year 3.
When you look at what the Kings and Ottawa have done this year, who would eager the flames will reach the conference final before either of them?
Look at the rangers just 3 years ago.
So let them have their last hurrah, and if they put everything together, wonderful, but you don't compete in this league with a 'retool'. The Lindholm trade WAS the retool.
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I don't disagree with the suggestion that BT is part of the core group. It is his team, no doubt. But I do disagree that the team needs a tear down. There is ample young talent on the roster; perhaps not enough ultra top end talent, but lots of teams have that problem and there is no guaranteed way of acquiring it especially with the new draft rules, so what does getting Detroit level bad do for you, really?
Whether BT is the guy to retool (or whatever you want to call it) remains to be seen. I would not be shocked if he lost his job this spring. But a new GM would certainly not tear this thing to the ground. There is too much good to work with.
The Flames are the definition of underachieving. Changes, yes, but, no reason to blow it up.
Regardless of what happens this season I fully expect them to challenge for the division again next year.
No offense, but the suggestion to blow it up is an emotional response and nothing more.