[Wastedyouth]

I think it's amusing how much dislike of Treliving gets.

There are some real blinders going on here for the fans.

Sure, if you take Treliving in isolation and look at everything he's done, there is good and bad and this year kinda sucks, but still we aren't bottom feeders.

But my goodness, take the blinders off and look at every franchise in the league. Every GM that is employed right now has similar if not worse blunders.

Teams with significantly better luck (draft positions, UFA viability, contract leverage) have had bad years and bad stretches and have had as little or as much success as the Flames.

Maybe you're expectations are too high because you are setting an unreal expectation for a small market team? Name another small market team, that doesn't ahve a single 1st overall draft pick in club history, that doesn't have a single drafted superstar, but luck or position, that has had more success than the Flames?

You can't. They don't exist.

That doesn't mean you can't hope for more, but maybe temper your expectations, because Calgary will always be chasing the cart.

They have a lot of cards stacked against them. And if they want to have success, they will need to build from within (they have) and catch lightning in a bottle.

That is the ONLY way that Calgary is going to sit amongst the elite.

So temper your expectations and enjoy the fact that Calgary wins way more often than it loses and the team is what it is.

Wait for the lighting in a bottle and enjoy the runs. Don't let the lows get you too low. Because honestly, as a franchise, the Flames lows haven't been that low.