This franchise chose to build its team in a way that was extremely risky.
Everyone was applauding Treliving in the offseason but the reality is he acquired older players that had career years in other organizations and signed them to long-term deals with inflated AAV’s.
This organization refused to accept all the data right in front of their face. You build a winning team through the draft and you strengthen it with trades and smart free agent signings.
Signing Coleman and Kadri as free agents, trading a 24yo for a 29yo and in general assembling a team good enough to compete but not good enough to do anything significant is just madness IMO.
This is the best draft we’ve seen in a while and instead of embracing the situation we were thrust into by Johnny and Tkachuk we decide to take a massive risk and load up on players who are only going to decline.
I’m not saying the Flames won’t turn it around and make the playoffs and even win a round but I don’t believe they are good enough to beat the true contenders in the league.
We will never win anything until we embrace the fact this team isn’t good enough to win it all and we should rebuild.
I do still think we will be competitive but that is not the goal for me, the goal is the Stanley Cup and we aren’t anywhere close to being in that conversation with how the team looks now.
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