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Originally Posted by jjgallow
If you are so familiar with all the bad trades and lack of success of this franchise, why do you support each successive one as they continue to occur? real question.
If I go back in your history I know I will find you supporting and defending all sorts of absolutely brutal trades, and fighting with anyone who calls them out for what they are.
Are you aware that you do this and do you know why you do this? Does it make you feel like a better fan, perhaps?
FYI, congratulations to you for knowing the Flames past. But nobody here, certainly not me, claimed this to be a fresh issue. Quite the contrary, all you need to do is read, I've called it out as a recurring problem about a billion times.
I also didn't claim to be brilliant, because quite honestly this is blatant and obvious.
Now, you've seen this trade and many like them in the past, and you know that 90% of them look bad in hindsight, and you'd defend each one all the same. You do you, but, it's possible to still want good things for the club without lying to yourself.
Sacrificing future is sacrificing future, Occam's Razor can predictably evaluate this team's decisions with considerable accuracy.
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By what I interpret to be your logic, every single trade is bad if it does not result in a cup win that year, or within X years, with X not defined.
That means 97% of this year's trade deadline trades were "bad". That is ridiculous. (My cursory review showed 33 trades on trade deadline day, Avs made 1, therefor 32/33 were bad.)
Every trade is an attempt to make each team better, either now, or later, but as we all know, only one team wins the Cup every year. Every trade is an attempt to increases the chances at a Cup. Again either that year or in future year or years.
Also, what is the definition of "favourite" to win the Cup? Should a team only make a trade if they are 5-1 or better odds? 4-1? 1.9-1? What is the magic number? When are those odds to be assessed? At the trade deadline? One week before? Two weeks before?
The day leading into the playoffs, DraftKings' odds had:
Avs at +350;
Panthers +550
Flames +800
Leafs +900
The Avs were the favourites, then the Panthers, then us. The Flames were 3rd. That makes us A favourite. Not THE favourite, as that is the Avs, but A favourite. Were only the Avs allowed to make trades?
Much of what you are saying or suggesting is so black and white as to be nonsensical.