[Flash Walken]

Originally Posted by Jiri Hrdina

So all your opinions come back to this.
Neat. But not really anywhere to go with it.

Here's how I evaluate things to some degree.
First you evaluate if the team has the right strategy. Then you evaluate the moves they are making within that strategy.

Absolutely, you can probably go back and find me being very positive towards the brouwer signing, the harmonic trade, the Hamilton trade etc.

Meaning I can still disagree with their high level strategies (examples being making moves to open up the contention window early, and trying to continue to re-tool to win now) but still examine how effective they are in executing that strategy.

I would say besides game threads, that's the bulk of what I participate with on the flame board. It's my favourite thing to discuss.

You seem to be in a never-ending trap where you think people are disagreeing with you that the Flames have moved too many picks, tried to compete too early, mis-managed assets, etc.

Few are disagreeing with you on those items. The debate over the Lazar deal is long over for everyone but you. I think almost everyone would take a do-over on the Hamonic deal. So again I ask - who are you arguing with?

I don't care about the Lazar trade, it's a truncheon. When someone says something can't be confirmed after years of having it confirmed for them, it turns to absurdist comedy.

Trading for bouwmeesters right didn't end up working out, and trading for widemans rights turned into a disaster, but maybe trading for Hall's rights is a master plan...

I dunno, I think that's pretty funny.

It comes down to the fact that perhaps you simply want BT fired and Murray Edwards to sell the team (if I'm wrong on either point correct me). And you want Edwards to spend more money to buy Neal out and acquire over paid players. But if those things don't happen, where does that leave you?

No, see, I want the Flames to be good and not horrible, but they actively refuse, so now instead of picking a backup team to follow like I have for the last decade I just wait for Seattle to get a team.