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Originally Posted by Strange Brew
I guess it's just the Flames luck. One of a bunch of teams fighting for one single playoff spot, higher spots aren't reachable and so the odds are against them.
One of a bunch of teams fighting for that 10th draft pick slot, can't really do any worse so the math is against them there too.
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Here is where my opinion differs from the crew- I think it is/was an entirely predictable outcome. It's like being on a train and knowing the bridge is out ahead, but refusing to pull the brake because the bridge might be rebuilt by the time we get to it... but we all knew they were just starting to rebuild it. My fear is driving the train over the bridge could damage the portion they had started to build already.
It might not "waste wolf's career" as Paulie puts it, but I think it adds additional complications to Wolf's future contract negotiations as it adds an additional year of development time for system assets to catch up to his development curve, which is already peaking. Parekh is in the same curve fortunately as he is overproductive, but we have to get lucky with assets in 26 and 27 having similarly sharp trajectories to align these "windows".