I'm not sure about hope but to me there are just too many question marks. All the years watching hockey I think the teams that have the most things that have to go right are generally the ones who have the highest probability of busting. The Flames have new coaching which is a questionmark, Huby needs to bounce back and so does Markstrom, Kadri needs to GAF, Sharagonvich needs to replace Toffoli's career year and then you have bunch of young guys that are going to play. All this and then you have the elephant in the room which is a lot of key guys wanting out lately with no commitment to the team and many of the old crew have their contracts up soon. How's the room like in this situation? To me there's just too many things that have to go right.
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