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After yet another disappointing season in which they missed the playoffs in a weak North Division, the Flames had arguably the worst offseason of any team in the Pacific Division. Touted as one of the teams to watch in the offseason for big changes, the Flames didn’t do much of anything to make themselves better. In fact they probably got worse.
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On defence the Flames had a disastrous offseason. The team lost their number one defenceman in Mark Giordano for nothing and proceeded to waste the extra cap space on below replacement level players. Giordano’s GAR of 12.9 in 2020-21 was first on the Flames, and fifth in the entire NHL for defencemen.
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Among Pacific division teams they added the lowest GAR at -3.2, and lost the second most GAR at 20.5. Their overall GAR change of -23.7 was worst in the division. The Flames needed a big offseason but instead got actively worse. Brad Treliving has essentially handed the keys to Darryl Sutter to see how far the veteran coach can get this team.
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Yup. I just posted this same sentiment last week. It's not just a bad offseason. Out of context, it was a bad offseaon -- but IN context it was a disaterous offseason. We went in knowing we needed major changes to get better... not only did we not make any of those changes, and not only did we not get any better... we actually got worse.
Worse. We are a worse roster going into this season than we were last season, and we did nothing to shift the course of this team into a different direction that what we've already seen from them for the last few years. Just another year of lame-duck purgatory while we waste contract years on our most tradable assets, with no intention of either getting something decent in return for them, or accomplishing something decent while we have them.
Like, what planet am I living on right now? In any other industry, a Board of Directors would have stepped in by now and replaced the entire management structure. Failure at this level for this long? Please. If this was any other team than ours, it would be the laughing stock of this site.
Ha ha, stupid Flames?
Edit: Two things: one, of course I'm still a Flames fan. It's a curse that will never lift. Two, I don't care at all about this "Goals against replacement" stat in the article. I don't even know what that is. What I do know is I'm not an idiot and regardless of how the author got there, his findings ultimately match with where my head is already at. It's not rocket surgery to see that we've given out contracts to players who shouldn't even be in the league anymore. I don't need a stat to tell me that. The only real intangible going into this season is a full year of Sutter at the helm.