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Originally Posted by blankall
Honestly I just don't get how any actual fan would be against going for it this year. The team looked great and they had just about as easy a path as you can hope for to the final. At the beginning of the playoffs I had excitement for this team that I haven't had in almost twenty years. This draft is very weak, and we can still flip Toffoli. We may even come out ahead, with a higher pick in a better draft. With Gaudreau potentially walking, this was the year. Didn't work out, but 29/30 teams lose every year. The Flames were in the top eight.
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Maybe some people think there can be more to being a fan than just caring about the current season. iI's not written anywhere than fans can't care about the Flames future.
We will see if this draft is weak. Makar's draft was considered to be a particularly weak one too.
I agree with you that things look bleak with the JG situation after this year, but the situation we are headed into (with regards to JG and many other factors such as no notable upcoming prospects) was created by a series of organizational short term, future sacrificing decisions.
That's right, things look bleak going forward because of a high frequency of decisions very much like this one. Sacrificing future for present.
So some fans, who don't like bleak futures, may speak up about that.
Fyi, I was fine with going for it this year with trhe exception of sacrificing our future. You don't do that when your best player is 3 feet tall and can't compete in the playoffs. You don't do that when your fallback guy on defense is Tanev and only Tanev. My thoughts on Flames short term decisions goes way beyond the scope of this thread but there should be no excuses for sacrificing our future, ever, unless we are literally the Stanley Cup favorite.