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Originally Posted by mikephoen
How about Chicago, Pittsburg and Colorado. Chicago has worse winters than Calgary, not to mention it's dirty and dangerous. Pittsburgh isn't exactly high on any great cities of the world list. Denver is about as close an anagram to Calgary as you can get. On a high prairie plane close to the mountains and far from the coasts. Similiar population as well.
Those three teams have 7 of the 18 cups won in the salary cap era.
As to your other point about not wanting to watch a bottom feeder, the Flames have two playoff series wins in the salary cap era. Two! You're already committed to watching one of the bottom feeder teams in the league when it comes to playoff success.
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The Flames are already the 9th worst team in the league. Being afraid of bottoming out is pointless at this juncture. They already have. Without Markstrom being an absolute heater, they would be a bottom 5 team right now.
The only difference now is are they a smart team that knows this season is lost, and make trades for the long term, or are they a dumb team where they try and maintain this losing culture by focusing on the short term.