[djsFlames]

What is there to be optimistic about?

We're making no real change or improvement to a core of players that have their moments but don't have that extra gear to get us anywhere in the postseason through several attempts together.

The team has a history of hanging on to good players for too long, getting sub optimal return or just letting important players walk to free agency in order to go all in on a one round playoff run. And now it's unclear whether they'll be able to lock up Gaudreau or Tkachuk long term and no one has stepped up to indicate that either is close or that the players intents to stay are legitimate to help alleviate that concern as for all we know we're quietly playing away Johnny's finally schedule in Flames silks.

We are constantly given lip service without meaningful action and asked to trust a management group that has worked diligently to keep this group toiling in mediocrity for years without the ability to get better (because they only tinker on the fringes) or allow them to bottom out to draft where truly good players get taken.

They've kept us in hockey purgatory, expect us to pay to come watch 2-1 hockey games at the best of times and despite having a number of assets on their hands with questionable futures here, can't appear to put together a package for the type of elite 1C that only becomes available via trade once in a blue moon.

Of course we're pessimistic.

So do something about it Flames.

Do something.