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Originally Posted by SuperMatt18
That's such a straw man, but we all have to toe the company line that the Flames are making the right decisions I guess.
Other situations aren't even relevant, but there were a bunch of people that were assessing this specific scenario and it looks like we were right.
Let's look back to last season.
-After last season there were rumours that some Flames were unhappy with the direction of the team after the Tkachuk, Toffoli, Hanifin, and Lindholm trades. One of the rumoured players was Andersson.
-Andersson had a bit of a harsh reaction at the 2024 Garbage Bag day and wouldn't commit past his two remaining years
https://thewincolumn.ca/2024/04/20/e...-cleanout-day/
- Flames traded Markstrom and rumours were Andersson was frustrated with that move as well.
Those were the discussions.
Then you add the fact that he's 30 at his next contract start, Flames were deep on RH prospects with Weegar locked up long term, and the team was retooling anyways and weren't looking to contend.
Honestly Conroy and the management team having even more information and still failing to make the proper decision just makes them look even worse, because it was obvious from the outside to move this player last year. |
Exactly..... I do not understand how people feel that this frustration half of us are feeling because of the exact sequence above is unjustified.
Patience in some cases can be a nice way of expressing 'fear of doing the wrong thing'. I would never accuse Conroy of not working his ass off for the Flames - but this treating players like gold only to be slapped on their way out trend needs a revisit.
We can still treat players like gold but we need reciprocation for the relationship to be 2-way beneficial. Currently, it is a 1-way street.....but we can say we have built a culture - however, I would argue that you can keep treating players like gold and sacrificing the Flames for the players individual interests, but if you do not have difference makers and are not winning bunch (go hand in hand), players will think about coming here - but that's it. Florida and Tampa were not destinations when they sucked for years. Detroit was a top destination (despite one of the worst actual cities to live in (only through hearsay)) for years during their dynasty.