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Originally Posted by Jay Random

It depends on the organization and the desired outcome. You wouldn't start a wildcat oil company in (say) Belgium, because there's no oil to speak of in the country. You wouldn't start a shipyard in Saskatchewan because it's landlocked. And if you wanted to start up a professional sports team with the goal of maximizing your odds of winning a championship, and had your free choice of locations, you would not put it in Calgary.

Have you ever heard of Ricardo's Law of Comparative Advantage?

It was a joke.
Anyways, all I'm saying is the Flames have given everyone plenty of reason to suspect they may not be an organization that commits to tear down style rebuilds. Not least because they've repeated that publicly time and time again. I do and have given Conroy lots of credit for his moves last season, its exactly what I've been wanting to see. But its just the first step. I hope you are right and what they've been saying isn't what they end up doing. Striving for the playoffs in the short term won't do this franchise any good, so I hope they don't make any moves that are short sighted. Draft position matters a great deal in the next couple of years. I would like the Flames to factor that in. That's all I'm saying, and I think a lot of fans feel that way. It would be nice to be excited about a premium draft pick and franchise player in Calgary. They have a chance to make it happen.