Quote:
Originally Posted by TOfan
The Flames were never going to go full Oilers and trot out an army of 19 year olds to feed to the wolves.
Bringing in Engelland and to a lesser extent others probably was going to be valued more by management than hoping lottery balls bounced your way on the right year.
It’s not a coincidence this team has never drafted higher than 4 and as long as the current ownership group is involved, I would be surprised to see anything different. Whether that is how they should approach things is a different argument though.
|
We have enough of history that the Flames approach to doing things in the last 30+ years is wrong if their goal is to win a Stanley Cup.
Signing Hiller, Raymond, and Engelland hurt this team. Without those players, perhaps we would have traded away more than just Glencross the following season and while we may have missed the playoffs, we would have been better off in the long run with how the team has drafted since Tree got here. Impatience.