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Originally Posted by Enoch Root
Exactly.
There is so much arguing from hindsight around here. The Flames traded Toffoli, Lindholm, Zadorov, Hanifin, Tanev and Markstrom. They added no one (okay, Mantha). They went into the season with $20M in cap space, only 2 defensemen with more than 1 year of NHL experience, and 2 goalies that had 93 games of NHL experience COMBINED.
This was a team prepped to finish bottom 5. But they have come out and defied everyone, and played much better than anyone expected.
But it's nothing but bitching and hindsight around here.
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And that this can only be a bad thing!
Assigning zero value to the fact that the rebuild is clearly way ahead of schedule because they appear to have four or five component pieces developing before our very eyes is living a confirmation bias.