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Originally Posted by Classic_Sniper
100%.
People really need to stop blaming “the guy” on a team. It always seems to come down to one or two guys because they get paid more or because they’re the “star.” It’s such a fallacy.
Good teams like Tampa win because regularly because they have a lot of “the guy” on their team. Heck, they lost Kucherov for the whole year and they still dominated this season and that’s because they basically have an all star team. You definitely can’t say the same thing about the Flames.
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I will say, I do think there was a point when the Flames did look to have close to that level of talent not that long ago in 2019. With Gaudreau, Monahan, Tkachuk, Lindholm, Gio, Brodie, Backlund firing on all cylinders. That group when everyone had their a game was a contending team. It was missing another top line RW and a top goalie. Big pieces no doubt and they were blown up by MacKinnon and the Avs in a hard lesson on what playoff hockey was and haven't really recovered.
That is when they should have hired Sutter IMO.
Either way, it is the past and we are here now, but I don't think we can be faulted for thinking a team that won the West a few years ago is a good team if it could just be consistent.