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Originally Posted by Monahammer

I ain't your buddy, guy! Don't speak for me. I am happy the team is outperforming, but I think more should have been done to ensure a poor performance.

“Right now, I just look at players to say, ‘OK, who’s underperforming? Who might be available?’” he replied. “One thing that is abundantly clear is just get to the playoffs. You have to get there. You don’t need home ice. Yeah, it helps, but this year, I don’t know how much it makes a difference. So get there, and hopefully you’re ascending to your peak. To hit at the right time, that’s important. But these playoffs, when you see Colorado going down and Boston going down, you’re thinking, ‘Man, just get there and see what happens.’

Quote from Don Maloney this past summer.

The intention was ALWAYS to make the playoffs.

Stating an aspirational goal isn't the same as actually pursuing that goal. You can't really seem to grasp that and just keep repeating that the Flames should have made themselves worse. For every vet the Flames traded in the offseason they would have had to bring in similar salary, so there isn't even a guarantee they would be a bottom ten team. Pretty much the entire hockey world had the Flames as a bottom ten team going into the season.