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Originally Posted by browna
The problem with the Flames at the hockey ops level, was when Sutter was fired, was that the team was supposed to crash. They had the mandate to clear out the big contracts and those that didn’t want to be here. However, this was for the purpose and goal always, to not still be on the downswing/or on a decent upswing at least, going into the new building.
It now looks like they will stink going into the new building, due to Conroy maybe over estimating some of the ability to make the moves he envisioned in the last two seasons, to have this team on the upswing by now.
So now a bit at the crossroads. And yeah regardless it’s tough messaging for the GM and organization to admins before US Thanksgiving, to basically say you’re out of the playoffs. It hasn’t been this bad/hopeless this early for the Flames since probably 2000 or 2001 and the media landscape was a lot different back then and how to approach things so there’s not a lot of experience.
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It is "funny" (Sad) that effectively the same team this year and last, we did good when we didn't have control of our first, and now are bottoming out
I fully expected them to be horrible last year and was completely wrong. I think CC did too.
Having your own 1st end up 32nd overall when you planned it to be a rebuild year ..... is something