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Originally Posted by Major Major
Fact is, there are optimal times for teams to do scorched Earth rebuilds. For the Flames, it was in Summer of '22.
You can't have a blanket approach that dictates that all middling teams should rebuild because that is the shortest way to become a top team. That just isn't true in many situations such as the soft market conditions the league is currently experiencing. The Flames are much closer to being a good team now than if they traded several UFA's for underwhelming returns. So you recoup some draft capital and sign the guys you can and trust that you can still make good moves to improve your team.
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So yeah, voluntary mediocrity. It’s 100% the Calgary Flames way. The financials that they produce running things this way seem to be good enough, and they won’t risk taking alternative paths forward.
“much closer to being a good team”
This team needs to redefine “good”. Right now the organization defines it as “getting into the playoffs every second year, hopefully, and winning one playoff round every 5 years”. That’s what they define as being a good team, because that’s what their actions show. Their lack of desire to change directions this summer reiterates that.
Tried to keep Treliving, didn’t want to fire Sutter, and then ultimately replaced them both with their assistants. That’s how organizations act when they believe that what they’re doing is the right way to do things. The organization is content with the amount of success that they have had in the last decade - that’s the message to their fans.