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Originally Posted by cannon7
The Flames have a mediocre management team and the results are expectedly mediocre. Until that changes, we should not expect anything more or less.
Presuming the Cup is the goal, and that is debatable league-wide, I would argue that Detroit and Dallas are being mismanaged similar to the Flames. Dallas is a closer analog to the Flames, but I would say they've drafted better given similar draft positions. Detroit has actually been in rebuild mode for a decade and keeps acquiring middling talent (Copp, Kubalik, Perron) resulting in them being a bubble team. I think Yzerman this trade deadline is now officially going full rebuild by unloading middling draftees like Bertuzzi and Hronek. They've effectively wasted Larkin's prime years (he's now 26) and they didn't have the core around him needed to compete anyway.
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Detroit’s interesting in this conversation because they are a team that was intentionally bad for a number of years. They brought back Yzerman whom was placed on a pedestal for years here during his time with the Lightning. ‘That’s how you do it’ ‘the Lighting are smart and the Flames are dumb’ was a pretty commonly held belief around here 3-5 years ago.
Fast forward and the Red Wings are now trying to expedite their own rebuild by surrounding a young group of talent, coincidentally 4th and 6th overall picks, with free agent signings. Sounds very Flamsey. Has Yzerman gone senile, or is it that there are many ways to build a contender and each teams path is different?
Point is being so rigid in a belief that you can not win without a top three, or multiples of them, totally disregards circumstance.
What happens to this belief if Boston wins the cup?