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Originally Posted by Erick Estrada
It's really important for the long term that the organization doesn't botch this rebuild. If Edwards is mandating a winning team for the opening season of the new arena, I expect that long term outlook will be pretty bleak for the organization as it's just going to be a repeat of Treliving's tenure where they go from bad to good/not great, to really bad. A proper rebuild should probably go a year or two into the new arena. The team will have to be creative in selling the future stars providing the team is bad enough in the next few seasons to amass a couple of franchise cornerstones. As of now they really don't have that player outside of the crease but that could change this summer. Save for Gridin and Parekh I don't see much to get excited about at the present time.
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I agree but honestly the Trieliving era is looking pretty good.
They had a competitive team, it just got blown apart 5-10 years too early.
Before it got blown apart was some of the best hockey the Flames have played. They were decenetly deep. They had the best line in the NHL, with multi 100pt and 40g players. They had a good d-core and should of had good goaltending. And they just made it to the second round, beating a solid Stars team. We still had Wolf, Coronato, Zary and Pelts in the system.
There were mistakes made building it up, but it was a good group if they could of played it out.
The current outlook is a long way off from that. Hopefully they do it right, are a bit more patient and actually retain their stars this time.