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Originally Posted by TheScorpion
Hah, I wasn't suggesting you meant otherwise.
IMO the Flames should be gunning to make multiple first-round picks in 2024, 2025, 2026, and maybe 2027. Start to pull out of things in 2027 and make the playoffs again around 2028-29ish.
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It is such an obvious timeline (to me at least). Trying to do anything other than finish bottom ten next year is a borderline disaster. Imagine going into a re-tool, or a rebuild or a re-whatever and picking 9th and then 29th the next year and not making the playoffs either year. Your team still probably sucks and you are picking down with the conference finalists. Brad literally gave the Flames a gift, a real incentive to tank for a year to get a high pick. The decision on whether to try to tank next year could literally be worth 20+ positions in the first round.