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Originally Posted by ComixZone
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.
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The part that is a pet peeve for me, is yes it's annoying to have my childhood team run in this way, I feel like a hostage, but I can deal with that.
I can also deal with being on the front lines defending a team to rival fanbases that regularly lets me down more often than not with nothing in return.
But...the failure of the Flames organisation to build a marketable entertainment business that is a top employer in their sector getting heaped on the City of Calgary (climate, small market, can't hide from media in Canada, etc). Well that's the line. Sorry I don't want to work for RCR or CNRL either. That has nothing to do with the city or fans.
Why do I bring this up in a quote to this post. I agree they tried to do the opposite of every move that ended up occuring the past year, except Zadarov and Toffoli. So we're looking at a year that we're going to struggle, but they have had zero engagement with their fanbase to tell them what is going on. People in Calgary are smart, they'll figure it out quick that they're being lied too, and they'll stop showing up. That's on the ownership and the business behind the Flames, not on the city or fans.