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Originally Posted by Classic_Sniper
It happened with Iggy too. This organization relied on him to be the only offensive driver of the team and so when he was shut down, the Flames were basically shut down and everyone knew this. It’s the same story with Gaudreau a decade later.
This organization somehow manages to find these elite franchise wingers and they think that’s enough. We’ll just build around this one guy and bring forth these expensive, overpaid complimentary or secondary pieces like Brouwer and Neal or Jay Bouwmeester or a second rate center like Olli Jokinen and now the Flames are ready to contend. Only for this team to fall completely flat on their face and disappoint their fanbases time and time again.
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Ain't this the damn truth. Organization still hasn't learned after Iggy in complimenting your impact player with another impact player.
I hope that for the next round at trying to build a contender, the GM is much more focused on acquiring top end talent to carry the team, and then worry about the depth afterwards. Depth is much easier to acquire and fit in to the teams salary cap, rather than having too many bottom lines players trying to outplay their capability when the best players on the roster aren't good enough to do so.
Let the depth be players that come up through the system, cheap UFA signings, and shrewd trades. There needs to be much more focus on internal building, rather than through external means.