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Originally Posted by stemit14
This is starting to get complicated for Conroy. And for flames fans. Most of us are ready for a rebuild but with virtually every player (outside of Ruzicka and Dube) clicking right now, Markstrom in Vezina form and rumours of the UFAs interested in extending… what does Conroy do now? Especially if they keep this up right to the TDL. What if all the UFAs re-sign for “reasonable” contracts? For example… Lindholm and Hanifin at $7 million AAV each, Tanev at $3 million AAV for two years. Would the fans be ok with that? It means no rebuild.
Keep in mind, the flames are still a long shot to make the playoffs. Too many teams are on hot streaks right now chasing down those playoff spots.
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I would hate this.
Teams go through downswings and upswings throughout a season.
When you look at the bigger picture, we're a middling team.
Probably around the 30th (22nd place) - 60th (13th place) percentile range on any given year.
In this range you can battle for playoff spot every year and get in sometimes. Typically draft the first round somewhere in the late teens.
To me this is the worst spot to be.
Re-signing everyone will flatline our trend line. We will likely not be moving out of this range for most of the next decade, especially considering we already have multiple vets of long term deals. We will have 5 vets signed to high priced deals for the next 5+ years and another sizeable group of vets signed for 3+ years.
We need big shakeups to adjust our trendline, either up or down, otherwise we will continue to flatline in the 30th (22nd place) - 60th (13th place) percentile range which is the land of hopelessness and insignificance.