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Originally Posted by cannon7
Yeah, it's a tough job. Guess we can just wash our hands of three decades of failure because 31 other franchises aren't going to win the prize this year either.
In this league you better have a vision, even a wrong one, because playing it safe and leaning into mediocrity hasn't won a single Cup.
This is precisely what plagues Canadian franchises. a bunch of undesirable locations, yet not one management group willing to do what is necessary to compete when the prime free agents go elsewhere. How sad is it that the Leafs are the closest thing to a competently managed Canadian franchise? And even then their window is about to slam shut.
What is this management team's vision? Aside from being devoid of one? Every move more myopic than the last.
Couldn't have said it better myself.
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There was a more concrete vision until Tkachuk and Johnny bolted and Monahan’s body broke down. You can argue the trade last summer lacked vision but at the time it looked pretty good. Flames did rebuild, and the two top players that every other team in the league would try and keep left. Flames still had a good group left that had holes and made a trade that they thought could put them back in contention. It sucks it is not working but imma push back on your assertion that this team did not have a vision. Last offseason was pretty unprecedented, it’s hard to blame management for giving this group another chance to compete then to rebuild.