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Originally Posted by DiracSpike
I’m obsessed with the Flames acquiring premium, top 5 player in the league talent. The type you need to actually do something and not crash out in the first round. To do that you need to draft high, and to do THAT you need to bottom out. Which wouldn’t be fun, but theres this thing called “short term pain for long term gain”. Why is this such an anathema to everyone, we did it ten years ago and it got us most of our best talent. And if we had got MacKinnon, or been bad in 2015 instead of 2014, who knows who the last ten years would have gone. If you like finishing in 9th every year and drafting a hardworking kid from the W 18th overall then that’s your right but some of us would like to see a 3rd playoff round sometime before we die.
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*Without* bottoming out the Flames have acquired a superstar goalie and potential superstar defenseman, and couple other really good ones.
Ffs, Bobby Orr was the last d-man to do what Parekh did in the OHL. Is that not elite enough?
I think you're fixated on the previous Flames philosophy while being impatient around what the team is currently doing and you aren't acknowledging that the Flames have changed up their approach to focus on accruing youth with upside while selling off vets who can't be a part of what they're trying to build.
That's two "elite" checkboxes marked off at two key positions.
I'm pretty sure with 4 firsts in the next two drafts including an unprotected Vegas pick that we can hold off for the moment on the "need to bottom out" narrative. They'll be putting these picks towards the best forward or center available. Let's see what they end up with.
I find most people desperate to suck are historians just looking at what GMs like treliving and Sutter did, burning every 1st rounder they could to further the agenda of making the playoffs.
We're not doing that any more. Time to get caught up to current events.