[Paulie Walnuts]

Originally Posted by CaptainCrunch

I give the Flames owner ship group credit as it evolves. Since we got the cap this group has said spend to the cap, but we want a competitive team that competes for a playoff spot. that's the bar.

I assume that the Flames ownership doesn't want tear downs and long rebuilds. We've seen that the Calgary fan base is incredibly fickle. A lot of people will say, yeah I'm a draft and trade addict, tear down and rebuild. But the fact is that as much as we deny it, this isn't a elite fanbase. And that's with no insult.

The Owners figure that if we go with a mega youth movement and it struggles that attendance in this city will drop like a stone.

So that floats at the back of their minds.

We also have to remember that the Flames are hopeful for that new building that will increase and stabalize their revenue stream. Without the playoff revenue, this isn't exactly a massively profitable franchise, it gets by. So that playoff revenue is hugely important.

So the question is, where is the Flames ownership's ire going to settle on at the end of the year. These aren't dumb owners, and they're certainly not out of touch with what's going on.

They can look at the stone like drop in the goaltending. The low shooting percentage, and ask the question is it the core group of players? Is it the coaches, is it the GM that messed this up.

On paper at the start of the year, Treliving came out of an off season looking like the golden boy.

The question when the serious questions is what the hell happened here? Was Brad stupid? Are we going to resign him. Can we get a new GM that can run a quick competitive reset of the core?

We know the owners love Sutter, they always have local farm boy folk hero and hard ass coach done good. But I doubt they're going to make him a GM again. They're not dumb.

If they decide not to resign Tre, then the interview question is what's the quickest reset here, who do we absolutely keep and who do we move on because the goal is the playoffs and that revenue in the playoffs.

I do think we're going to see an active off season on the edges of this team.
I do think that they won't resign Tre and the GM that they hire will have a very specific goal. Competitive, playoffs. no teardown and here's your budget.

What is a elite fanbase?