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Originally Posted by Cecil Terwilliger

I’m not a fan of gate keeping but with some of the vitriol I’m reading in a surprising number of posts should mean you have to retire as a flames fan if Ward/BT/Flames succeed.

Saying Flames are cheap, an embarrassment, content with mediocrity, hard to cheer for etc should be a self ban if proven wrong. Not that it would matter I think. He’s already a failure no matter what happens.

Being disappointed we didn’t get your desired coach is one thing. Proclaiming the organization a failure because of that and based on some imaginary organizational dedication to mediocrity with a side of purposefully screwing the fans as some weird spiteful motivation is just plain weird.

I'm seeing most people not excited about the hire but still obviously hoping it goes well. Same thing when Gulutzan was hired. Same thing with Peters. The Flames now have a track record of not hiring coaches with prior success, that's a fact. The onus is on the team now to show they've made the right decision, but coaching decisions haven't gone great under this management team. Not sure why its unreasonable to be skeptical. Doesn't mean people are wishing for failure. They just haven't been shown a lot of success with that strategy.