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Originally Posted by Monahammer
You're always shooting off such empty platitudes. Highs and lows. LOL when was the last high for this franchise?
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I am? Didn't realize you were paying such close attention. Any examples? Honestly, maybe I have been, but not to my recollection.
I guess you want me to say there has been no highs over the recent past and this team is not worth our attention? That, or they are hopeless losers destined to suck, and I should just revel in their, and my own, pity. Sounds appealing. Or maybe I will take satisfaction (not really) in arguing with strangers online about something none of us have any real skin in the game on. People like to point out to things like the Gaudreau contract situation and start running around with their hair on fire saying things like 'Treliving should be fired immediately' for things they have conjured up in their imagination that haven't even happened yet. It's hilarious. Whether you, or anyone, wants to acknowledge it or not, Treliving has a better understanding on what JG and his representation want and whether or not that is aligned with what the Flames want. Evidently they are willing to enter the final year of his contract without an extension signed. They probably have contemplated the scenario where; they sign him to an extension, they trade him, or they loose him this offseason as a UFA. I am certain they are aware of these scenarios and their implications better than we do. I think any person with two brain cells to rub together would have a plan, one way or the other, on how this plays out if they were in Treliving's shoes. So why do people like to think Treliving, and the Flames, don't? Do people think that
no one in Flames management has any idea of what is going to happen? Please.
I thought 2014/15 was a high point, 2018/19 as well. I enjoyed watching those teams and the aftermath. I was pumped when the Flames acquired Hamilton. And I was pumped when they traded him the second time. I think there is a pretty good chance they rebound from last year and are a playoff team this year. I have been reasonably optimistic about the teams ability to be competitive at the start of the season for several years now. I don't think they are cup contenders, but I also acknowledge that it is much harder to be a good team turned to great, opposed to a weak team that is turned to good. Can they get to be cup contenders with the way this team in built and the assets they have? Don't know. It seems unlikely, but I wouldn't dismiss it out of hand. Sutter said he wanted to win a cup here. He knows more about this team and hockey than I do, or I assume you do. He must know something you or I or great majority of us don't. Or maybe he, like myself, is also just speaking in empty platitudes. But, why? He left the ranch and came back to coaching for that?
Generally speaking, I prefer to be optimistic about the team, otherwise what is the point in following them if they are going to be terrible at every corner they turn, or decision, they make. I understand that is the fashionable sentiment among many here these days, but I really don't think things are a bad as many like to think. And if they are and I am wrong, well, perhaps we get that rebuild many are clamoring for anyway.