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Originally Posted by The Cobra
I just read through too much of the thread. I just that unless you have a strong stomach to pass on it.
Way too many wrong statements by the vast majority of posters.
I think it's hard to criticize Treliving when the majority of posters were ready to erect a statute of him for the Huberdeau signing. I get it's his job to know the difference, but Huberdeau's fall from grace was unprecedented.
Lots of bad luck here.
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We always knew that the window for the Flames was likely 4ish years when Huberdeau was acquired. Huberdeau having (is it a record) perhaps one of the greatest decreases in year over year points and Markstrom sucking resulted in the Flames missing the playoffs. Without those two things happening the Flames go on a Sutter playoff run. Maybe win 1-2 series in that year, and the team's makeup is totally different. Right now the Flames would be looking to take advantage of cap space to pick up UFAS for the last couple of years of their window.
Sutter was not the best coach to handle a mentally fragile team. His answer was always run it out again, but work harder this time.
Too many posters are making massive conclusions about the right and wrong moves. In the modern parity NHL, the line between contender and loser is thin. People are upset with the Huberdeau contract, because we were supposed to get a first half of good years, followed by a decline, during our rebuild. No good years so far, we're in a rebuild now, and Huberdeau will be declining and a cap anchor when the team is competing. A lot of the criticism is hindsight though.