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Originally Posted by curves2000
Motivation and drive. This is what drives athletes, business people and successful people in general. This piece is bang on. For way too long Flames management and ownership were wasting time, playing games and giving us all this impression they are 100% committed to winning across the board in every aspect of the organization. We know that is false.
Way too much attention is brought to 2004 cup run which was a great story but was on the back of an unlikely hero in Kipper. It's either been a combo of not surrounding top talent with proper coaching staff or supporting players or refusing to believe that you need young, explosive talent. Having an actual PLAN for doing something is important. Our plan in 23-24 was to resign a bunch of older players to higher AAV contracts and double down on the fraud. Those players had other ideas and forced managements hand to where we are today.
I am one of the few hardcore Flames fans who isn't opposed to Edmonton winning, in the faint hope it forces ownership and management to confront the truth that we are a bottom feeder organization and have been almost my entire life (39)
Amateur should be over and we need to get into a position where we are a long term, long playoff run contender. Tampa, Chicago, Anaheim, Pittsburgh, Nashville, Vegas and more. Even teams like Winnipeg have had a LOT of regular season and playoff success in the last decade.
If Edmonton wins a cup, that will be 6 to our 1. Ours came when the owner up north decided to sell arguably the most dominate athlete in history. If that didn't happen, does Calgary even win a cup?
I am almost approaching middle age and told I need to trust the process and to be patient. Patience is running out and so is the pocket book for this nonsense every year
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We don't need Edmonton to win, Florida and Colorado were rebuilding at the same time as Edmonton. Florida is another case of a team being at the bottom for around 5 years and now are having sustained success because of it. Edmonton would get the owners attention more so than Florida, but just being in the finals has to get their attention.