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Originally Posted by Bingo
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.
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I think the issue is attributing this years success to being "ahead of schedule"
Does this years relative success actually lead them to where they want to go faster, or does it actually throw a "Wrench" in the plan.
Being middle of the pack faster doesn't necessarily mean the rebuild is ahead of schedule. Unless the rebuild is suppose to get us to the middle of the pack.
The team is very weirdly built, with too many older but not horrible/retirement players who play hard and actually still make up our core, but will get worse over the next few years, and young solid guys who can replace these old players production, but no young superstar "probable" players, leaving us...... Where exactly?
If we had 3 young studs in the minors and were doing this I would agree. To me this season will set the rebuild back a few years (best case) or 5 years if the Flames try to pivot into "rebuild accelerated" mode.
Wolf is the wildcard - If he becomes a top 3 goalie maybe we become Winnipegesque (Who unfortunately don't seem to have postseason success because they are missing the superstars and in the playoffs most teams have good goalies and superstars playing 25-30 mins)