The Flames making the playoffs in 14/15 season made the management thing the rebuild was over. That was a fun year we exceeded expectations, but they should have realized that type of play was not sustainable.
The Hamilton trade is fine, but the team still needed to develop. Any sniff at the playoffs and it's green light time to start bringing in vets and pushing younger guys down.
Troy Brouwer being touted as some great linemate for Bennett, and that never materializing. So we double down and bring in James Neal, and end it with Lucic who funny enough did have chemistry but we said nahhh.
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