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Originally Posted by flames_fan_down_under
As a massive baseball fan I am finding these continual poor Moneyball comparisons frustrating.
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I don't think anyone is saying there is a 1:1 of Moneyball to hockey.
However the realities are very much the same. An undesirable small market like Calgary can not compete with the rest of the league for prime free agent talent. As such, in order to be competitive, they need to be top of the league when it comes to drafting, scouting and developing talent. Instead the Flames are near the bottom of the league in this regard and they have a GM that goes big game hunting every summer. They throw the big bucks at second tier free agents, when they should be investing in the best hockey minds the game has to offer. Instead we have a boys club that has largely gone unchanged in eight years with no track record to show for it.