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Originally Posted by Joborule

It's incredible how this franchise is so abrasive in wanting to avoid being "Buffalo West", but so tone deaf to not see that they already are - or at least related. The Flames have been one of the worst franchises in the league for the past 3 decades with their lack of second round or better appearances, and wins in that round to pair with it. What exactly are they trying to preserve, that makes them so afraid of embracing the rebuild publicly?

Flames, you're already a joke. If you don't want to be "Buffalo West" anymore, then stop doing it by actually having competent management, and making the right decisions to field a competitive team that legitimately has a cup contending window for a period of time. Keeping their head stuck in the sand and maintaining status quo is just gonna keep yeilding the same results over and over.

The actions that have actually occurred in the past couple of years indicate that they are trying to go in the right direction for the most part. But what they're saying out in the public definitely disrupts that narrative, and raises concern. Hope it's just poker face intentions.

Its absolutely maddening how unaware they are of their own ineptitude. Next to no playoff success over a period of decades, yet they want to preserve some mythical culture of winning. This will be the 4th straight season out of the playoffs, and if they dont manage to get more elite prospects into the system, who knows how much longer that could go on. They are already everything they are worried about. The period of suffering is already here -- its just a matter of whether they optimize and make it worth it, or they stumble through it and make it much more painful and long lasting than it needs to be.