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Originally Posted by Roof-Daddy
This doesn't excite me like it used to.
I don't even want the Flames to be a cap team. Just means they overpay for non elite players and end up with a bubble team that is capped out and isn't going to win F all.
This franchise and it's location can't attract and/or keep elite talent.
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Sure they can.
Iggy and Kipper stayed.
Players like winning and they like when organizations demonstrate a willingness and ability to get transformative deals done.
Gaudreau and Tkachuk left, yes. But only after watching Treliving:
-fail to land Mark Stone
-fail to sign Adam Fox
-fail to land Jack Eichel
-take six years to solidify the goaltending
-fire four head coaches
-let three of hockey’s most famously miserable psychopaths run the bench
-routinely give boat anchor retirement contracts to non-star players
I see the departure of both as a far greater indictment of what Treliving “built” rather than some pointed criticism of Calgary.