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Originally Posted by ComixZone
Last year’s team still wasn’t good enough.
But yeah, losing two top-10 players in the league should have sent the team into a rebuild. It didn’t.
Also, having your goalie go from Vezina quality to bottom of the barrel is also a way to sink a team. That’s not on Huby, Weegar, or Kadri.
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The team last year wasn't good enough to make the conference finals, but by most standards, you could consider it a very successful team. Only 5 teams scored more goals than the Flames last year.
The goaltending issue this season is a fair point of course. Markstrom has easily cost this team at least 10 points in the standings. With adequate goaltending, this team could easily be in a playoff position right now even with Huberdeau being a non-factor. The fact we aren't in a playoff position and are falling back further just really makes the Huberdeau situation stand out that much more. We'd still be disappointed with how it is turning out, but we wouldn't be talking about it as much.