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Originally Posted by Vinny01
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)
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Can’t disagree with anything that you have written. It would seem to suggest that the Flames better keep their draft picks and not give away assets like UFAs walking away for nothing or dumping third and fourth round picks on player rentals. This mismanagement of assets is one of the primary reasons for unhappiness with the GM.