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Originally Posted by Calgary4LIfe

I don't think Rasmus has 'struggled' with Gio. He is the same player as he has been last season, and perhaps the season before that. He simply hasn't taken a step forward as we hoped. Maybe he will, or maybe his lack of footspeed will always hinder him just enough to expose him too often as a top pairing defencemen. Either way, he hasn't regressed. He just hasn't grown into his role this season, and it seems to be more glaring by the month.


As for Treliving - I don't think he deserves to be fired. I don't think he deserves to be retained.


I have no idea what this mess of a team is. It seemed to be really good. I think this team misses Brodie and his ability to transition, but even being possibly the biggest Brodie fan on this board (assuming BigBrodieFan is gone!), this only scratches the surface on what ails the Flames.


I don't know what stinks, but something stinks fierce. Maybe it is the culture. Maybe the mix. Maybe injuries regressed certain key players. Maybe apathy. I have no idea. I see a dead team. They play with effort mostly, but they play like losers now, which I don't know how to exactly explain to make you understand that statement. They aren't losers because they are losing, or because I am suddenly immature and mad at them. They are simply going out there and expecting to lose, but put in a full effort (mostly, IMO). It just seems like they walk into the game and expect to lose. Maybe it is just me.


So does Treliving really deserve to get fired? I don't know. I didn't think this team on paper was that bad. I didn't think it was a contender. Aside from catching lightning in a bottle, I didn't expect this team to make it to the Finals, for starters. I did view this team as 'comfortably in the playoffs' team, and felt that they should be turning that corner into a consistent playoff team.


Somehow the bottom fell out, and the Flames are free-falling into rebuild status. Not convinced a retool will really work - see a retool as a bit of an asset devaluation (death by 1000 cuts) until a team is forced to rebuild, but there are plenty of teams that have done retools very well. Either way, pretty sure that everyone here is going to be expecting some rather large changes this off-season.


For now, I would just trade the upcoming UFAs until the trade deadline. This team is tanking just fine right now as it is built. Make the changes in the off-season unless there are deals that are too good to pass up. I would just be scared that a bunch of players from the farm would come in here, breathe-in too much excitement and start helping this team win when it counts the least.

There are no other options

Is it a problem with this organization that there is too much sympathy and not enough accountability?