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Originally Posted by Vinny01
It has been a rough year with losing to our rivals, to losing our franchise players, signing new high end players who failed to take the team to the playoffs, to have our GM decide he didn’t want to work here anymore. Still the worst building in the league and the fanbase is not feeling good about the team.
On one side I am pissed in general about this situation. A GM has a vision to build around the 2 best players and they choose not to stay. It was an impressive pivot last summer getting Huberdeau and Weegar ++ for Chucky and then signing Kadri seemed to set the team up to be better but an 18pt drop in the standings resulted in the dreaded spot of being the team outside the playoffs with the best record. He made a pivot and that move resulted in 3 long term contracts and 2 already look borderline terrible.
The Sutter era in early 2000’s helped restore the team but when it ended the team was a laughing stock especially when Jay Feaster tried to keep pushing forward with the same group. I think the Burke and Treliving era brought that respect back to the franchise.
I always thought Treliving and Maloney were a package deal but I was clearly wrong. While I expect Sutter to be back it will be interesting to see what other changes are made.
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I think it is bad optics to keep Sutter at the helm. The real failure wasn't Treliving but Sutter who couldn't get his players accross the finish line and may have hampered the process himself. Flames need a fresh start with an exciting up and coming team. I think the fans would embrace that. Can't imagine what it would be like to go through another middle of the pack finish.