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Originally Posted by Freeway
It's worth noting that there were structural economic issues that made it financially impossible for the Flames (and other Canadian teams) to compete on equal footing with their American counterparts until the late 1990s.
Escalating salaries in the early '90s combined with the Canadian dollar tanking made things really, really tough.
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1000 percent true.
The 90s wasn't a rebuild, it was barely treading water and nearly drowning.