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Originally Posted by Harry Lime
Flash, I don't know exactly what it is that you are advocating. You want a complete rebuild with more than two core players traded for picks? At what point does the team run out of core players?
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I'm saying, pick a direction and go with it. The flames direction for the last 5 years has been to trade an extraordinary amount of picks away to be a mediocre-to-bad team.
Stopping now is a complete and utter waste of the last 5 years.
Everyone and their mother on this board knows the flames don't have it in them so things properly, so holding onto 2nd round picks so in 5 years the flames have another rasmus Andersson when the core group is all gone anyway is pretty much worthless if it means the Flames team of next season gets routed out of the building in a first round sweep.
The flames have moved entire drafts worth of picks in the last several years.
Either this core group is worth adding to or it isn't. Bingo is saying the core group isn't good enough and isn't worth building around, but his fix is that the group just needs a tweak of chemistry.
We've seen that before.
Dithering around is what has them where they are. Either spend the picks on players that actually improve the team or commit to not spending the picks and acquire more of them.
Trading a 1st round pick for tanguay and then a first round pick for Mike cammalleri is not going to 'change the chemistry' enough to account for the major structural issues that plague the team, and just like the failed 'rebuild' we are living through now, half assing your way through it isn't going to deliver results.
If you need any proof of that just look at the freaking history of this team.
There is a right way and a wrong way to do things and a you can bet your house that a team that has sucked as bad and as long as the flames have who keep doing exactly what bingo is advocating is on one side of that coin.
Call it binary if you want but this is a binary league. You either win or you lose, and only in the Calgary market is being better than Edmonton a win.