Appreciate the writeup. I agree with allot of it.
Will we see another year like this?
No. Covid, condensed schedule, borderline illegal, rescheduled condensed schedule etc etc.
Sure Darryl has a style he wants to see his team play. He wants pace, shot volume, hardworking commitment and he's unwilling to change because of his 2 cups , 1 almost and lots of other success .
He does need to look around though. The comments about Cooper in Tampa I 1000% agree with.....I mean they killed the Panthers. Absolutely destroyed them and I don't think I even realized how badly because I was still going through Dallas Stars ptsd.
The decorations are great winning divisions, presidents trophys etc but what's the cost come playoffs . Keeping the gas pedals jammed to thr floor for 82 games isn't sustainable....if we can we need these guys to have a break.
If we had an Olympic break, all star break....maybe It would be different?
Here's what I'll finish with. We did well with what we faced this year and it'll never happen again this way but here's the thing.
I'm not falling for keeping this team together like we've done in the past only to see it fall flat.
The one change I want to see is more callups ...more prospects getting cups of coffee with the big team and with the heat being here next year I want to see these guys get developed a little quicker by thr Flames instead of forcing vets to be the solution because our coaches and management don't think it'll work.
Let's take advantage of having our AHL team here.
All these players will now get to practice together, train together, hang out together and become a tight strong brotherhood.
There's no way you can tell me the Flames aren't going to be good next year based on the HUGE leap we made this year and that's super duper exciting to this Flames fan .....the future is bright.
Great job guys. Great job Mitch Love .
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