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Originally Posted by Igottago
The loss of Gaudreau and Tkachuck was almost a historic situation, I've never seen any sports franchise unexpectedly lose its two superstars within a couple of weeks. Realistically, how was the franchise going to recover quickly from that. It was a complete sea change in the quality of the team. There was no way to effectively patch that up, try as they might.
The key now is for the Flames to recognize what and where they are -- this is a team on the decline. So put the plans in motion for the right strategy to build it up again. The insanity of pretending everything is going to be fine by staying the current course is infuriating.
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The team would be in the same situation if they stayed or 1 left and 1 stayed.
If both stay we lose other players.
Don't think Tkachuk does what he did in Florida in Calgary last year especially with his issues with Sutter.
We got dealt a pretty crappy hand. Both guys suck it up for 2 plus years and have career years in contract years.