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Originally Posted by kehatch
When he tried to retain several players on expiring contracts?
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He made them lowball offers, which they did not take. Other players he did not even bother making an offer to. And some of the players he traded were not on expiring contracts and weren't eligible to receive any offer. Funny how you only remember part of the story.
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When he told the players asking if we were rebuilding that we were not?
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He lied. There's an old saying that most people nowadays seem never to have heard of: ‘Actions speak louder than words.’
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When he convinced players requesting a trade to give him another year? When the only trade he has made in nearly 16 months was to pick up a couple more midling players?
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He stood pat when the team was fighting down to the wire for a playoff spot. Any GM would do that, rebuild or no rebuild. You don't dismantle a team while that's happening.
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I respect differing opinions, but the smug tone of many posters to those who want to see a different direction is a bit much.
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How about the baffled tone of posters to those who don't recognize that the team already is going in exactly the direction they're demanding?
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We are the most consistently mediocre team in hockey
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Over the last five years, the Flames have finished in the following places overall: 20th, 6th, 16th, 24th, 15th, and so far this year they are 32nd. Some of those results were mediocre, some not, but there is nothing consistent about them at all.
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and we are still maintaining a largely veteran core that got us 1 point out of the playoffs last season.
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Most of the veterans were already gone by the time last season started. There's a reason why the team kept those who were left.
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And the media is already reporting on the ownerships and managements desire to maintain UFAs to help sell excitement for the new arena and due to our difficulties acquiring external talent. The concerns that many fans have is not unwarranted.
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The media reports made-up stories with great regularity.
Again, look at actions, not words. This team has got rid of more veterans in a two-year span than any other team in the history of the salary cap. The only reason you think it's not a rebuild is that management has been told not to use that specific word.
I'd love to wrap a can of chicken soup in a label that says ‘.999 FINE GOLD’, and sell it to you for $4,000 an ounce. You'd be getting an absolute steal, wouldn't you? Since you always believe that the label tells the truth about what's inside.