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Originally Posted by Enoch Root
And, as has been said, Monahan. And a strong D core, and Markstrom.
And the common opinion on CP was that they had no stars and couldn't win.
If the Flames had:
Tkachuk - MacKinnon - Kucherov
Makar - Hedman
Shesterkin
as their core, Flame fans would complain about the lack of depth and cap space.
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It is wild how undervalued that last team was - but I think it's fair that we can say a lot of that was due to the terrible head coaches that were continually hired here. The coaching hires actively suppressed all-stars and player development. For as long as we had Tkachuk and Gaudreau, the fact that they only played like 1.3 seasons together is baffling.
Screw ups all over the organization were present at that time. Who was having the hard conversations with Monahan and shutting him down while his hip was locking into position while he was on the ice?
Treliving was his own worst enemy.