Yeah, whole lot of revisionist history there. The Flames did a pretty good job replacing the losses of Gaudreau and Tkachuk according to most at the time, and even with monumental collapses by star and key players, they still missed the playoffs by just a nose.
Do people really think that if they took the rebuild deal instead that they would have been much worse than they were with Huberdeau and the goaltenders completely collapsing? That they somehow could have rid themselves of enough talent to compete with teams like Arizona and Chicago for the bottom of the order? Come on.
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