The Flames organization needs to be very careful, they have survived this awful period because of their 2004 run, but that is starting to wear thin. I can remember the half empty Dome in 2001 and the ticket drive to get to 14000 season ticket holders or the team was off. Peaople are starting to lose interest which quite frankly is not surprising considering the cost to see games. To make matters worse not only has the team not been winning but the hockey is dire to watch. There is no excuse for the team being as bad as it has been, they have spent to the cap and got nothing for it. That can only lead to one conclusion and that is management is very poor and yet we trundle on, having another go. If this was a Premiere League football team the GM would have been gone 5 years ago. You have to give NHL GMs longer because of the draft system but in reality our GM should have been sacked 2/3 years ago.
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