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Originally Posted by Scroopy Noopers
This is just so annoyingly vague. What “clear direction” do you want? We’ve had several editions of young teams over the last 30 years. None worked out. Our most recent version, included elite talent that the Flames had drafted their selves. The direction was forward with them. They chose to leave Calgary. Both of them. That happened 8 months ago….
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Clear direction: We want to hold onto our core, that is Mark Giordano, Johnny Gaudreau, Sean Monahan, Matthew Tkachuk, Mikael Backlund. We firmly believe this is a contender core, despite some up and down years. Therefore we are protecting Gio at expansion draft, even if it means losing a player who may have been ahead of him in the depth chart. We will do our best to re-sign these players, ever if it means drastically overpaying them. But we are going to keep them.
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We are moving away from this core. We don't see enough consistency in this itiration of Calgary Flames. Too many up and down years, many coaching changes leading to pretty much same mediocre results after some time. We won't be protecting our captain, we will be looking to move Gaudreau, Tkachuk, Monahan so they don't walk away for free. We will be looking to start a rebuild or re-tool if you will in this insanely stacked draft year talent-wise.
Everything else is going to lead to this exact dumpster-fire we are obserbing right now. And I have not even included the fact they hired Sutter for this - a short term taskmaster, who will eventually lose the room no matter what.