Players that were on the 2003-04 Flames team (the best Flames team for the last 20 years and a big reason the Flames did not leave Calgary) and not on the 2005-06 team
Conroy
Clark
Commodore
Montador
Lowry
Gauthier
Gelanis
Lydman
Nieminen
Oliwa
Saprykin
Players on the 2018-19 flames team that were not on the 2019-2020 team
Hathaway
Neal
Prout
Fantenberg
Management looked at the 2004 team with a critical eye and basically blew the team up. The 2019 team with great regular season and disaster playoff was considered a finished product.
With 20-20 hindsight the best time to blow up a team is after a startling great season.
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