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Originally Posted by Erick Estrada
I would assume you have been a Flames fan long enough to know the Flames have been wallowing in mediocrity for decades, not years and this conversation is not a new thing. It's just the reality of the franchise we support. Even with Wolf I don't see the team being better next season or the season after for that matter. Any gains made by Coronato or Zary will be negated by Kadri, Backlund, Coleman, Huberdeau being another year near the end of their careers.
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Yep I've been a life long Flames fan. As have most posting on this site. The mediocrity comments are all based on history not the present reality. If this current GM re-signed Taffoli, Lindholm, Tanev, Zadorov, etc for what they were asking I would get the "same old mediocre Flames" comments. That would be the GM trying to stay in a constant playoff hunt. But what they did was set a price and then sell the assets for draft capital. The main things keeping this team in the current spot is a rookie goalie and team that doesn't quit.
I don't see the team being better next year either. I also don't see them being a bottom 3 team with Wolf. That's why I stated that people are going to have to get used to the idea that they won't be doing a full tank but having to acquire draft capital and draft a lot and build that way.
Unless they sell Wolf this is the reality. He is a good goalie who will steal games. As long as they are drafting as much as possible and not making trades for win now players or signing them in free agency I just don't get equating this current approach to s### that happened in the 90s, 2000s or 2010s.