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Originally Posted by Jay Random
They fell further and faster because of all the good players they had to trade away to stay under the cap with those two monster contracts. I suspect they would be better off now if they had simply let one of them walk and signed the other.
I repeat, the Blackhawks won the Stanley Cup in 2015. Toews and Kane's contracts went into effect on July 1 of that year. They lost in the first round in 2016 and have not advanced beyond the first round since then.
That's not aging; that's falling off a cliff.
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They earned those contracts though. They won it all 3 times.
This is just part of the regular team cycle you hope the Flames one day endure. The fact that they signed these big deals, their talents began to erode and they aren't able to fill the roster with talented depth shouldn't come as a surprise.
If the Flames won 3 Cups and we were sitting in cap hell because of Monahan, Gaudreau and Giordano I wouldn't be complaining too much. It's the price of success.