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Originally Posted by DazzlinDino
Do the Flames have a plan? Flames don't seem to have much of an identity, are we a big strong team or a fast skilled team? We seem to have a mix and match group of players that didn't seem to have a lot of chemistry. Both Brad and Darryl seem content to let young guys develop in the AHL, so I don't see us embracing the youth movement as long as Darryl is involved. The chances of Identifying players to fit a particular coach is made even harder when we can't find the right coach to stick around.
I agree with the notion that the organization just doesn't seem to have a specific short and long term plan, except "win now", which overall is still very short sighted. Best move right now would be to clean house except Conroy and promote a guy like R.Love. R.Love could then embrace a long term plan starting with younger team (with a goal to make the playoffs within a set period of time). Would also be good time try and collect as many high picks and prospects.
Even the idea that Conroy could move to GM is being met with concerns that he can't fire Darryl.It is going to be hard to build a plan with conflicting idea's and a bunch of hurdles to clear.
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I’m 100% on the rebuild bandwagon, was one of the few who was disappointed in the direction the organization took last offseason.
But I actually think this team has an identity unlike years past. They’re a big, heavy, balanced, hard working team that’s built for playoffs.
If this team didn’t see such drastic drop offs from their stars players this season, then they’d be in the playoffs. Kadri and Huberdeau are more explainable since they played on different teams last season, but Markstrom’s astronomical fall makes no sense.
The team’s defensive metrics are better than good and it’s the same team, some coaches, same systems, and roughly the same squad. How does a guy go from second in Vezina trophy voting to arguably the worst starting goaltender in the league. Markstrom gave up a ton of bad goals this season, shots from distance, giveaways, early goals, deflating goals and etc.
It’s very hard to defend his performance this season especially with his $6M cap hit. I can’t defend Darryl’s choice to use him so much either, that was by far his biggest mistake this season.