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Originally Posted by ComixZone
What's the ceiling of this team if they're better coached and have better goaltending? Unless Wolf is Hasek circa 1999, it's not a Championship quality team. This roster is older, and worse than the team that got absolutely !@#$ kicked by the Oilers in Round 2 - and that was their BEST season. This team doesn't have the structure of a contender.
If they run it back with a different coach (or the same coach) all they're doing is yet again banking on "just get in and anything can happen". It's a bad approach.
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Originally Posted by Flame On
I don't think it's unpopular at all. For most of the time he's been here he's proven he can't assemble a group of players which have cohesion or a focused identity. The team isn't over fast, skilled, big, gritty, etc. You can bring in any coach you want and they are going to get similar results.
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The identity of this team is ‘be slightly above average and do whatever it takes to get playoff revenue.’
With average goaltending this is a 98-100 point team. With last year’s Markstrom this is a contender again. That’s the best you’ll get as a Flames fan in the big budget modern NHL (by this I mean a stacked team like 1989 with a bunch of HOF players on sub $1 million contracts will never happen again). Accept it or cheer for another team.