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Originally Posted by DeluxeMoustache
^ @blender
see I don’t think that it’s right to say the top level talent isn’t there
The team has to play with pace, and then on good teams, top talent is effective when they are the ones who are capable of making plays at a high pace. Somewhere along the way, and I think gradually over time, this team believed in their skill and slowly the pace moved downwards to the point where they are too easy to pressure.
I can’t think of a top team that is cerebral and effective without pace
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Led by Treliving, the Flames have had fewer draft picks (50) than all but five teams since 2014.
In that same time span, Calgary has also had fewer first-round picks than every team except Pittsburgh, Tampa Bay, and Washington. The major difference, of course, is that those teams have leveraged that draft capital into sustained playoff success and Stanley Cups.
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https://www.tsn.ca/seven-years-into-...cess-1.1631065
I think the fact of the matter is that other teams got better. Other teams kept their picks and the Flames cut off their pipeline of talent for short term boosts that sometimes worked out (Hamilton) and much more often didn't (Hamonic, not to mention Elliott, Smith, Stone, Forbort, Gustavsson, Lazar, Fantenberg). By cutting off their only reliable source of value (drafting and developing), the Flames stagnated while other teams got better.