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Originally Posted by mrdonkey
If anything, the organization is in worse shape now than when Brad took over. Bottom 5 prospect pool, veteran-heavy team of underperformers with several albatross deals on the books, no surplus of picks, no especially high-value contracts to capitalize on, and a core that won’t really return much via trade because of the term left on their deals.
It’s probably most similar to what Sutter left Jay Feaster to work with, if anything.
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nearly everything in here is wrong.
The Flames are in a far better position today than they were when Treliving took over. The teams drafting and developing has been better since the late 80's/early 90's. They have consistently produced NHL players at a pace that hadn't been seen in years; Bennett, Tkachuk, Mangiapanne, Dube, Andersson, Rittich, and we may see more by years end.
Bottom 5 prospect pool? according to who?
veteran core? Sure Gio is 37 Tanev is 31, Markstrom 31, other than that everyone is 27 or younger. Definitely not past their prime and still very much movable assets.
Who else has an albatross deal aside from Lucic, who is actually been reasonably productive for his role. I'm not sure if there is another 'albatross' contract on the roster. Some are complete steals (Lindholm and Hanifin).
Nor surplus of picks? I believe we have all our picks for the next two drafts, aside from the 2021 4th, but we have an additional 3rd.
Seems like your letting your bias cloud your ability to see things for what they actually are. There's plenty of that happening around here these days.