[tkflames]

Originally Posted by 14Roman14

Sounds like a chance at a 5 year rebuild until it’s time to be competitive again with a chance at a 10 year rebuild with until competitive if those picks aren’t hits.

I get it that if done the right way it can build a winner but it takes a lot of time, a lot of drafting talent, and a lot of luck that, the prospect talent matures into strong nhl players.

I may be in the minority, but I like that our team is spending to the cap, has a lot of skilled players, and are trying to win. Right now they aren’t exactly clicking and the skill on paper hasn’t transitioned to meshing and showing it on the ice. However it is there and could click big when it dies even if it’s next year. Honestly the Flames were hyped up this year and expected to do well by most “experts”. That adds pressure. It seems when they are expected to do well they don’t, when the experts expect them to take a step back they do surprisingly well.

I feel it would be a mistake to sell them and now as even if it never does click this year, it just might next year when the majority of the team isn’t below their personal expectations.

Many of you may not remember the young gun days. They were so painful. Anyone good was gone, the amazing prospects were hyped as the saviour, but they never were and we were rebuilding from about 1995-2002.

It hasn’t always worked out but I definitely prefer the last 20 odd years of making trades to help try to win now minus iginla/bouwmeester.
There is merit to get in and anything can happen. With this kind of talent I believe it more than ever and would much rather try that route of luck than a rebuild which still requires luck, but could be longer term misery.

I’m not necessarily saying add big, but prefer this team not to sell big. Everyone is entitled to their opinion, but hope this fanbase who many seem like they want to sell hard to be careful what they wish for:

As opposed to a 10 year rebuild with the first 5 years being low end picks...round 10-15....thereby likely extending the rebuild...