So many bad ones......
The Flames have had glorious luck with drafting pure superstars, but then GMs ravish the team with awful moves.
Looks at things since 1989. The team was torn apart. Then the team somehow gets Brett Hull in the fold....but he's gone. Even with the horrendous handling post 1989, the team could have recovered again with Fleury and Hull both on the team. Imagine if 1995, the team had Fleury, Hull, and Niewendyk.
In the next era, the team somehow stumbles across Iginla and later Kipper....but Stillman, Savard, and later Phaneuf are gone. The team then spends Iginla's entire career spinning its wheels and wasting assets trying to find a centre for him.
Then....well we all know what happened with Gaudreau, Tkachuk, and Bennett.
This team has a horrible habit of souring relationships with superstars and telling offensively talented players they have to learn to be grinders. The problem is pervasive that it must be coming from the owners and not just a string of GMs repeating the same mistakes.
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