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Originally Posted by Jay Random
So the Flames have been missing the playoffs year after year? News to me. When I look at the standings, I see the only time they did that was just before and during the last rebuild, two management teams ago… but what do I know?
Here we go with the same stupid accusation that the negative loonies always level at anyone who finds anyone positive in a situation. ‘What are you, X's mom?’ ‘Who are you sleeping with?’ etc., etc. All you do when you resort to this is make yourself look petty and ignorant.
Only in your imagination does ‘I'm tired of people blaming Brad Treliving for things that never even happened’ somehow twist into ‘I'm defending the way the team has been run’. You are so damned negative that you can't accept any adjective but ‘worse’ or ‘worst’ applied to the Calgary Flames. That's your problem, not mine.
You'll have to spell that one out. Seven years ago, the Flames were coming off a 27th-place finish and had nothing to show for it but the 4th pick in an admittedly weak draft. Their leading scorer was Jiri freaking Hudler, a castoff from the Detroit organization. They had a few promising young players like Monahan and Gaudreau, but we all know now how those guys turned out and a lot of CP can't wait to run them out of town. What on earth did they have then that was better than now?
I have very little faith in the team or the people running it. I have no faith at all in the people who hate it and have to keep exaggerating and making up preposterous scenarios just so they can have more things to hate. I'm tired of it and I wish it would stop.
The real situation is bad enough. Screaming about how much worse you are certain Brad ‘World's Biggest Idiot’ Treliving is inevitably going to make it does nothing but make other people miserable.
I am seriously thinking of giving up being a hockey fan altogether, because the only way I have of talking with other fans is through places like this one, and the toxicity has grown beyond belief. The naysayers are not half as sick of the Flames as I am sick of the naysayers. And I see no hope of an improvement in that, no matter what the team does.
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First off, take a breath son.
You're making up quotes, calling people names, and trying to spin your own narrative. I don't hate the Flames, at all. I'm not sure I really "hate" at all. I strongly dislike things and how people do things but I don't hate. I haven't called Treliving "the world's biggest idiot" and I'd defend him if someone did. Again, I don't agree with what hes doing but I'm sure he's a nice person. I asked you a simple question, just answer it. And stop pretending you know anyone on here, you can't have a conversation without flying off the handle and making ignorant accusations.
As for the hockey side of things: being first round fodder doesn't amount to anything so stop trying to act like just making the playoffs every other year is an accomplishment. 7 years ago they had promising young stars Monahan and Gaudreau and drafted Bennett, then they surrounded them with junk. Gave bad contracts, gave up valuable assets, and don't have enough to show for it. Now those young stars are on the decline, they have Tkachuk who now seems like he doesn't want to be here a d they'll have to give him an overpriced contract that walks him to free agency as quickly as possible. Their prospect pool is bad, their younger support players aren't good enough other than one or two and they've mismanaged assets for a few years.
We're not, or at least not all of us, making up preposterous situations. No one is certain of anything but it's OK to not have faith in management to turn around and make hard decisions to improve the team.
I don't mean this as an insult in any way but maybe you should take a break, maybe not from hockey all together but just from CP. It seems as if you can't have any kind of conversation without taking things personally.
You're calling everyone else negative yet end with "I see no hope of improvement no matter what the team does". You're coming off as one of the most negative people in here.