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Originally Posted by Erick Estrada
Recently? We are after all discussing an organization that has reached the 2nd round of the playoffs just twice in the last 30+ years. The fact that there are still fans of the organization in numbers is pretty impressive when you consider just how bad this organization has been for the last three decades. I'm also a Raiders fan and it's the same thing there of being optimistic every offseason only for nearly every single season in major disappointment. There becomes a time when enough is enough and many of us are simply tired of the constant mediocrity of this franchise. It's at least two years of we fans discussing the flawed core that can't get it done only for management to do nothing but continue with it to the point where they have put themselves in a corner where the team is on decline and trade value of several players diminished. Running an NHL isn't rocket science yet this organization continually chooses to make the wrong decisions over and over. Maybe it's an ownership issue but regardless it's getting old having these same discussions every single year. If you want to be part of a positive fan community I would suggest you change your allegiances and start cheering for a winning organization.
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We cheer for the same teams I am also a Raiders fan. It has been a garbage offseason for them
Maybe it is a market issue? Calgary is a market in the bottom 10% of the league for where people want to play. So many fans seem to have blinders on this and when I see them demand that this team should be in the top 10% of the league every year within 5 years of a rebuild I just think fans have expectations that are not in touch with reality. It has almost been 30 years since a Canadian team won the cup. Rich millionaires would rather live in the States and in terms of Canada I would say outside of the Leafs or Canucks you do not have a single market that is desirable. Montreal maybe but you have multiple languages and the worst taxes in the league.
In the years the Flames tanked they really needed to win one of those lotteries that would have landed MacKinnon, Ekblad or Matthews.
For this team to win a cup they need to get super lucky in a lottery but if you deliberately try and chase that player it could be 10 years of being the biggest joke in professional sports like Edmonton and Buffalo (2 markets that Calgary is not that different from)