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Originally Posted by Erick Estrada
The Canadian media is the worst for building up fans hopes when they have flavor of the day players only to crush them when those players are displaced by the new flavour of the day. They get so excited about young players that they forget that the NHL is a team game and start anointing greatness before it's been achieved. The Flames have been as good or better than the Leafs, Canucks, Oilers over the past three seasons but you would never know if you just went off Canadian media coverage. They are kind of the forgotten team as they don't have the shiny new toys on their roster but have the most well rounded roster which isn't sexy to people that like shiny toys.
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It's so lame that they continue to latch onto this group of misfits led by two selfish players in awful laser tag outfits, run by the most entitled and pretentious management group this side of the border/possibly hemisphere.
Flames have nicer jerseys, a horn that doesn't sound like a bagpipes' last breath, a classy and charitable Norris winning captain, a team that plays as a group and doesn't abuse two guys ice times, a lady byng winning top scorer who is a great ambassador for the game that inspires smaller kids that they can make the show too, Craig ####in Conroy, and now one of the premiere goalies in the game.
Putting a similar effort into supporting this team and its players seems like a no brainer, but who am I to tell the media what team is worth their focus and what isn't, when the same repeated results over the last decade from that gong show won't even deter them. Chatting about McDavid's latest stats-padding play in a loss is what does it for these people at the end of the day. And sadly, we have to watch their subpar production on top of it.