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Originally Posted by dino7c
Flames won two division titles before you know whos bailed...2nd overall one year. They were on the right track. Lots of teams lose multiple times in the playoffs before they pull it off.
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Regardless of looking back at the last era, you have to look at where we are now.
We have zero stars. We need the draft picks to get our stars. The last era was defined by some excellent value being extracted out of less than ideal draft spost - getting Tkachuk at 6th is excellent work, getting Monahan at 6th was great, and even getting Bennett (what Bennett has turned into) at 4th is far from a disaster.
You know what they didn't get though? MacKinnon, or Barkov, or Draisaitl, or Ekblad, Makar, Hedman, Stamkos etc. The spots that they got to draft from, while they did good - did not give the Flames a good enough opportunity to become a Championship quality team.
The Flames, outside of getting their top-3 picks, did everything as well as could be expected but they could not overcome the skill deficit that they were facing due to a lack of having the opportunity to make Championship-quality picks.