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Originally Posted by TheSquatch
I explicitly stated that I think they want to win. I think the ownership wants to win. I think Tre wants to win. I think the players want to win.
But there's a disconnect in wanting to win (the cup) and doing what is necessary to do so. I want a Corvette, that would be amazing. Am I willing to work an extra 30 hours a week for one? No. Flames are not willing to have a period where they don't make the playoffs. So they draft 17th every year and stay right where they are in the standings, every year - a bubble-ish team that can't get farther than a round against other bubblish teams.
This isn't speculation. I remember Feaster saying the mandate was playoffs. Was he lying? Sutter said the same thing when he was GM, and his moves reflect it. "Let's win right now." That's not the same as "Let's build a great, stable team." I think the Flames ownership group has been totally transparent about this mandate, and I don't feel like I'm stretching the truth about it or making anything up. I've posted in this vein many times. The trouble with the organization is that philosophically, the mandate from ownership is wrong. Do I have that written on a piece of paper, a note from Murray Edwards to Jay Feaster? No. Has it been said by GMs and Presidents from time to time? Yes, absolutely.
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Wasn't responding to you at all.
I don't disagree to be honest.
Wanting to make the playoffs every year is totally fine as a goal, but if you slide into that bottom 1/3 you need to shift gears to adding the assets needed to get back to the top 1/3, and not just to the middle.
The problem with the Treliving window was that surprise playoff team in 2015 in my mind. They were on the methodical build plan until they felt they were close.
Turns out they weren't.
But honestly when they added Frolik and Hamilton to that team I thought they were closer than they were as well.