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Originally Posted by Ashes
7 games into the season and i feel numb watching this story play out, my apathy has completely set in. What even is this team. Unfortunately the rot starts at the top with Ownership and trickles down into every hockey ops decision.
If they sign Hanifin and Lindholm and triple/quadruple down on THIS core I will actually consider not watching games this season. I don't know what else a single fan can do. Rebuild FFS. Murray Edwards has got to be the worst owner in sports. Spending to the cap with a mid roster without a single top-end talent from G to D to FW doesn't make you a great guy, it makes you a fool.
The opportunity to rebuild 2 summers ago was so blatantly obvious to most of us but instead Tre chose the supposed "win-now" package, then last season when it was obvious to most of us that the season was going down the toilet and we should sell at the Trade Deadline.. we chose not to, and went into the draft with our own single mid-round pick, in the deepest draft in 10 years lol I mean honestly we could go on and on but the fact of the matter is, this franchise is spiraling with no end in sight, and no real plan in place that I can see.
IF the Flames were to trade Lindholm and Hanifin at the deadline for picks, and give this team an injection of young talent (hopefully at least a single gamebreaker) I will take it all back. With that being said, I'm fully expecting retirement contracts to be handed out over the next 1-2 months to both guys so that the team can try to spin the narrative that this is a great place to play or some other BS. F me.
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Think the saving grace is I don’t think they can afford to do that capwise. Can’t have the whole team on 8 year big dollar contracts.
Math might just save them from themselves.