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Originally Posted by flamesgod
Still need to be above the cap floor. I can bet you the mandate isn’t to rebuild like the Oilers did and take 15 years to do so. It was complete incompetence that landed the Oilers McDavid. They were actually trying to compete with Hall, Eberle and Nuge, but didn’t know how to build a hockey team. They are not the model for anything.
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I don't think it ultimately matters whether you lose on purpose or by accident. To me, as long as the end result is us drafting franchise or generational players, then that's all that matters IMO.
Had enough of this team trying to tow the line between being bad or being not the worst. Just pick a lane and be really good or be really bad already. We've tried the not being worst strategy and it failed, so maybe it's time to try something different.
I mean, heck, how good would the Flames had been if we had drafted Barkov & Reinhart instead of Monahan & Bennett instead? We were right there, just a few picks away. In a different universe, maybe it's the Flames lifting Lord Stanley this year with Reinhart scoring the Cup clinching goal and Barkov shutting down the opposition's top center for us.