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Originally Posted by BrownDrake
I get that Bonded, the point i was making that intentionally tanking or telling competitive players its not important to win and winding up in 9th or 10th isn't necessarily going to be "good" for your team.
People are just having a hard time accepting that we are not the sharks, old coyotes or the recent blackhawks. We are a decent competitive team with a young allstar goalie that is likely in the mushy middle where 10-12 teams are every year. You also can't trade a lot of our pieces that are keeping us there due to prior bad decisions.
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I don’t really buy into the idea that teams tell their players to not win and they go and do it. Most of the tanks are the results of bad rosters and going scorched earth is harder to comeback from because a team needs to get lucky when they draft and have strong management.
Treliving had a contending core if he kept the players the Flames drafted. I think the Flames need to find a star winger, a star center, and a star dman. Maybe they have the dman and winger in the system but they definitely don’t have the centre.