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Originally Posted by Robbob
The same thing happened in 2015 when we had Gaudreau come in and was in the Calder conversation as well. As much fun as it was beating the Canucks that year, they probably would have been better served getting a higher pick and for sure not trading a 1st for Hamonic shortly after.
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There was nothing wrong with the 14-15 Flames making the playoffs - the fact that they made it, won a round and then drafted 4th, 12th (traded) and 6th the next three years tells you it did essentially nothing to harm their rebuild efforts.
It was the other mistakes you mentioned, as well as mistakes you didn’t, that compounded on each other to sewer this team.
Perhaps the biggest thing that screwed them was Markstrom/Talbot being the best goalies the team ever employed - they almost never had a Wolf-level goalie.
Now they have him right off the hop.