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Originally Posted by Fighting Banana Slug
What are you talking about? Chicago was going for it with the
Jones trade when no one thought it was a good idea and it blew up in their face. They lost a big chunk of youth and draft capital and really have no choice. The Flames had a bad covid year but had pieces they believed in and picked up a goalie they thought could be a difference maker. Not wrong, in my view. I get why Chicago sold high on Hagel (to a lesser extent on DeBrincat), but the Flames would really need to undo a lot to get to a tanking scenario.
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They could keep Strome, they could keep DeBrincat, they could keep Hagel and continue to finish in that bottom ten spot and hope for another lottery win to give them the best chance to draft a game changer.
Or they could recogonize the writing on the wall now (after the Jones trade) and gut their team so they don't have to hope and prayer for some balls like some slut.
They'll finish near the bottom next year, draft a game changer, start to contend in 4 or 5 years and everyone will pretend to be shocked and how lucky they were when they made the moves they made to actually try to win and not just toil in the middle.