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Originally Posted by Bingo
So you're assumption is the following;
- the two more positive radio/tv guys are wrong
- the usually negative radio guy is right
- Treliving has just taken the summer off and isn't doing anything
Seems legit!
Honestly even Treliving hating fans can't honestly think that a lack of major roster change is due to laziness can they?
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I don't think it's a case of laziness. I think he is a little trigger shy lately(the last season). Maybe it's because his job is on the line? I have no idea. I honestly refuse to believe that there are only bad deals to be found. Yet somehow other GMs manage to find and make deals to improve their teams. Granted some GMs seem to be setting their franchises back.
The problem that I have is that the Flames look like the classic case of a team in need of a change in direction. Instead, all we've been getting is status quo. Which seems to be backing the Flames into a corner, for a last kick at the can with Monahan, Gaudreau, Tkachuk, and Backlund as your core forwards (core forwards over the last 5 seasons). Then you either have to Gaudreau and Tkachuk a lot more or lose them for a lesser return.
I hope that Sutter can get the most out of this team. That said, we've been hearing for half a season that something is wrong in the room. We were also seeing a lot of uninspired hockey. We got a lot of slow starts, and didn't know what team we were going to get every night. We still had a mentally fragile team after getting scored on. Not to mention that we couldn't buy a goal when trailing in the third. I grant you things seemed to be improving under Sutter. That said, I don't know how many of the Flames' problems are going to be fixed by better goaltending, and a better coach.