[Goriders]

Originally Posted by FanIn80

Honestly, it's gotten to the point where I don't even get excited for a Flames game anymore. I don't even check the schedule to find out when they're playing next or what games they have coming up. I haven't even looked at the standings in over a month.

I've been a fan for over 40 years, and this is one of the most disappointing iterations I've seen yet. When 13 bailed and 19 told us he wasn't re-signing, we could have sat back and said, "well this is the perfect year to blow everything up for a pile of draft picks." Instead, we stayed fixated on this notion that we were somehow a "contender missing a couple pieces." Fast forward to today and here we are paying 6M for a backup, 6M for perhaps our 3rd or 4th best defenceman, 10M for a second-line complimentary winger and 12M for two third-line centers.

We could have gone into this upcoming offseason with a pile of picks plus a pile of cap space (with even more coming off the books July 1st)... but nope. We do things the Flames' way here. Play like ass until we're mathematically eliminated, and then, in a blatant fit of stubbornness, go on a 7 game winning streak to close out the season to ensure we're drafting right in the middle of the pack.

Not to mention, closing out the season on a winning streak makes it much easier to sell the fanbase on not blowing it up...

40 friggin years, and only three of them have been worth anything.

That’s way she f’ing goes Ricky