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Originally Posted by Erick Estrada
Yeah I actually enjoyed the rebuild far more than watching the last few years of trying and failing to make the playoffs with Iginla. The 2014/15 season was by far the most exciting Flames season since 2004.
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I agree - and then even coming out of that 2014/2015 season, there was so much excitement around the team. Our GM was making bold moves to acquire more young pieces (Hamilton acquisition), and there was so much forward momentum that it was hard not to be excited. Things got severely derailed as we went along though. Back-to-back-to-back bad coaching hires, some pretty poor free agent work and small "meh" trades along the way and the excitement is just...gone.
I'm a season ticket holder, and would absolutely be on board with a tear it down rebuild. It's easy to sell me hope, and much harder to sell me on "we're going for it!" when we've won 1 playoff series since 2005/2006 and have spent two years in a row trending down rather than up.