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Originally Posted by Scroopy Noopers
Come on man….
… I can’t believe this stupid franchise isn’t rebuilding…..
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They were forced into every single one of those trades after they were rejected by nearly all of those players. Then the reality sets in that teams who want to acquire players like the ones we traded aren’t subtracting from their current rosters - yet, when the Flames could get “now” pieces, they made sure they did. Including Kuzmenko in the Lindholm trade and not flipping him negatively impacted the Flames draft position, as did not trading Markstrom, as did keeping Noah as long as they did and trying to sign him right up until the week before they were forced to trade him.
I think dismissing fan angst over the fact that the organization is doing everything possible to not rebuild through the top of the draft isn’t fair. Everything they do is in an attempt to not let a “losing culture” take hold, even though they own one of the strongest losing cultures in the league. Conroy has talked about this desire to not build a “losing culture” fairly openly, and that’s concerning because to me that’s not correctly assessing the current state.
The Flames may stop doing stupid stuff (like letting free agents walk), but that’s still a far way away from doing things well enough to establish any sort of “winning culture”.
If Friedman is right, and I have zero reason to think he’s wrong, then the Flames are continuing to operate with a similar philosophy to years gone by…and that’s just sad.
I hope Markstrom is gone within the next 16 days, and I really hope the return is based around futures.