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Originally Posted by nik-
It's weird how voraciously some people will defend this mediocrity.
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I think it's somewhat similar to people that stay in abusive relationships. Make no mistake the Calgary Flames organization has abused its fans. In the 90's when could excuse the team because of the money disparity but ownership is still responsible for a decade where there was a lot of dysfunction in the organization as they had too many cooks in the kitchen in with Coates, McDonald, Polano, Bremner, etc. When King and Sutter brought back some stability they drove it into the ground with their playoffs or bust mentality to which they have once again repeated with the current group.
The decades of mediocrity has normalized the fans to losing. You can see it here with posters that still believe after 7 years of mediocrity with Treliving if the team sticks it out management group that things will change but in abusive relationships we know that never happens. The biggest thing about abusive relationships for the victim is fear. Fans are scared things could get worse not realizing that they have become acclimated to a lack of success. The reality is that change is the only thing that can bring success to this organization and it's a matter of fans believing that they deserve better.