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Originally Posted by PepsiFree
You might be missing the point here. Much like Boston or San Jose or whoever else, the Flames added Huberdeau, Weegar, and Kadri with one direction in mind and, when it was clear it wasn’t working out, they changed direction and traded the majority of their top forwards, defencemen, and starting goaltender. So saying the Flames have just been doing the same thing and it’s time for a new direction is silly. They did exactly that. Some patience is required here to see how this plays out. Teams aren’t rebuilt in year two when they’re still in the process of moving vets out and bringing young players in.
All this talk of them not tanking or trading away vets is just silly. They’ve done that. Hanley is was playing on the first pairing and Klapka was taking reps on the top line lol.
Conroy can only make the moves he can make. Nobody predicted the team would be as good as they were. They looked like an easy bottom-ten team. They weren’t. They still walked away with what looks like one of the best centres on paper in the entire draft because he had a ho-hum start to the season and is an inch too short. That’s why you let these things play out instead of hand wringing about everything before we even know whether it’s the right direction or the wrong one.
I’m sure people can handle being told to let it play out and still have fun. We have to sit through condescending comments about us fans that are placated by “pillow talk” and being happy with a “nice, convenient vision” or mockery and discounting around the concepts of “leadership” or “competitiveness” (real things btw), which isn’t lending to “fun vibes” either, so I’m sure people can handle being told to be patient because they’re mad the team isn’t a cup contender at the end of year two of a rebuild.
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I essentially started saying the direction is fluid, you said it's not fluid it's a direction, I doubled on fluid and you seem to be stating the same thing another way? That's not me missing a point, it's semantics.
I'm fully aware of the concepts of leadership and competitiveness, thank you.
You're mischaracterizing the rebuild crowd's urgency to rebuild (in an excellent draft year) with expediting some sort of cup window. Any realistic fan in favor of tearing this down even further recognizes this is going to be 3-5 years before any sniff of the playoffs again (which it may be anyway), and even further out from contending for a cup unless they get extremely lucky.