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Originally Posted by InternationalVillager
Except that winning the Jack Adams doesn't really mean anything in terms of job security. Plenty of coaches have been fired the next season or two.
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Not to mention it's not really the same team in many ways. I really think after the Summer of Brad(TM) we (me, most folks with some exceptions) imagined it was a plug and play situation and they'd build off last year. We didn't account for the chemistry issues etc. And it seems like neither did Brad.
I keep thinking about the Ference/Kobasew for Stuart/Primeau trade, and the impacts of that on the team. Feels kind of similar but on a larger scale.
Granted the last few seasons I hadn't been following like I have this year, but going into the Fall I don't think I'd been as excited about the Flames as when they first traded for Jokinen and 'finally' got Iggy a number one centre. Come to think of it this season has gone about as well as the Iggy/OJ experiment.
