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Originally Posted by Erick Estrada
Darryl does contradict himself though as on one hand he's saying he was brought in to straighten out the team which alludes to an underachieving team. On the other he's saying the team was never that good, not a top 3 team in the division and would fight for the 4th. Going by his low expectations the team didn't really underachieve so I'm not exactly clear what he was brought in to straighten out?
Also throws a big of shade on Ward and Treliving when saying there was a lot of work to do to get the team to play the right way and keeps talking about how mediocre the roster is and as said above his and Treliving's expectations of the roster seem to be totally different.
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I don't think Sutter contradicts himself at all.
This team is both underachieving, and not that good.
Homer glasses aside, it would probably be fair to say that a realistic expectation for this team going into the season was to be a top 4 team in the division, with an outside shot at being a top 2 if everything clicked. The truth is they didn't really come close to that. The team was unprepared to play this season. It looked like the team was ready to play their first 5-10 games and then they just basically spiraled until these last couple weeks in the season.
Being a playoff hopeful isn't being a good team and the Flames failed to live up to that very mediocre bar.
Sadly that sentence can be used to describe the last 30 years of Flames hockey. But hey, at least '04 and '15 were an absolute blast!