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Originally Posted by InternationalVillager
I believe “mandate is to compete without completely ruining your future” is such a cliche and a tag line for perpetual mediocrity.
In any sports team, I believe you should have 2 mandates:
1. We are in this to win at all costs.
2. We are building for the future.
Being stuck in the middle is what is truly ruinous for organizations. You can’t do both. You can’t try to win and build for the future. You’ll end up not doing either.
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Exactly. Doing both is a terrible strategy in my opinion because as you're improving in areas, you're regressing in others. This team lost Brodie and Gio which was their top pair. Now guys like Gaudreau and Tkachuk are gonna need raises to stay which impacts your ability to fill out the rest of your roster. Or potentially they move on which is even a bigger issue. Next, Mangiapane is going to need a big raise. If you want to keep Lindholm and Hanifin these guys will need raises shortly. And a team like the Flames without bonafide superstars needs depth. I think they will lack the cap space and the assets to obtain solid depth. We've seen Brad use a lot of picks to try and add depth and this just hurts your prospect depth. So now we have less picks and also picks later in the draft. These types of players take time to pan out, if they ever do, and by the time they're ready their impact is either not significant enough or the team has already regressed where they are just improving the team enough to stay average. I just see the same cycle ahead unless some kind of miracle happens and they find a Point and Kucherov in the 3rd and 2nd round. More likely there is just slow regression until they lack most of the significant assets that could have been used to increase the odds of a succesful rebuild and reduce it's time.
But hey Go Flames Go.