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Originally Posted by Textcritic
I very much doubt that this is the mandate from ownership. More than likely these guys want the Flames to win more than any of us.
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It literally is the mandate from ownership.
It has been since Sutter was the GM. When Feaster took over, I listened intently to his first press conference, hoping like hell to hear something fresh. And nope, mandate is playoffs every year. That's what ownership asked of the GM when he came in. So no fresh approach, no rebuild, no sell-off. Playoffs or bust. Every year.
Sutter sold off draft picks for players to hold this line. Feaster walked into an empty closet and had to sort it out AND keep the team in the playoffs. The mess he walked into was unbelievable. And he did... okay... at sorting it out. There's a few obvious things he totally blew too. And Tre still had some bad contracts and bad players to unload or wait out. And the mandate the whole time is "make the playoffs". Ken King was absolutely transparent about this in many interviews. It's the philosophy of an ownership group that knows fans will show up year after year. It's not that they don't WANT to win, they do. But they won't make any sacrifices to do it, they didn't trade Iginla while he had value. They won't trade Gio while he has value. They won't take a step back to take 2 steps forward. They haven't in 20 years.