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Originally Posted by Jay Random
Everyone remembers which teams were so bad for so long that they drove away their fans, went broke, and had to sell out to a different city. (Those of us who are older than dirt also remember which teams folded entirely. Anyone who thinks that can never happen again is a sucker.)
Calgary is the third smallest market in the NHL (and also the third coldest). Most players don't want to play here. Local media revenue is maxed out, and gate revenue is sharply limited, both by the size of the market and by the crumbling hunk of concrete the team plays in. At least three-quarters of the league has a significant competitive advantage over Calgary.
It would be nice if the Flames won another Stanley Cup some day, but only a fool would expect it. And only a maniac would demand it, or think that the team's managers must be incompetent because they can't deliver on a 100-to-1 shot.
You don't ‘aim to be the best’. You wilfully chose to cheer for a team that CANNOT be the best, and then cry and whine because they aren't something they cannot be.
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Pure fear. You call everyone else negative but you post the most negative drivel about the franchise, like they are on the short bus of the NHL and just pathetic little victims that shouldn't be expected to do anything of note, should just be happy to have skates.
Its a salary cap league now not the early 90's. The save the Flames campaign worked. Let it go, leave your trauma behind.
No one is demanding the Flames win the cup, but they want that to be the aim, backed by a sound strategy. That's it.
The Flames have a new arena on the way and an opportunity to ice a good team in it if they play their cards right. They are no more disadvantaged than a number of other teams in the league. Hopefully they at least realize its time to leave the small minded thinking behind.