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Originally Posted by Super-Rye
A wise man once said "it is possible to do everything right and still lose. That is life."
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Wonderful! Have a look at this I posted all the way back in.... 5 days ago.
https://forum.calgarypuck.com/showth...92#post9584692
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Originally Posted by Super-Rye
Uh huh.
I'm very much of the mindset that you shouldn't worry about things you can't control. I don't control where this team finishes, or where they pick. Hell, this team barely controls that. They could throw this whole season away and still pick 5th or some ####.
The things this team CAN control (hitting on the picks they do get, developing said players, making smart trades and free agent signings) is what will determine if this team is a contender or not. I then gave an example of a team that did exactly that.
I would love for this team to get a top 3 pick. It would likely solve a big hole in their lineup. If it happens that's great. If it doesn't then that's fine too. I should BE so fortunate to have so little going on in my life that where the Calgary Flames pick in next year's draft would even register on my list of things to ####ing worry about.
If you want and a few others want to keep embarrassing yourselves after every Flames win then go for it.
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I'd say you have the control thing backwards. A team has more control over how low they finish in the standings (though in the Flames' case it's quickly slipping away with the recent string of wins) than they have hitting on picks.
Hitting on picks after the top 3-5 in the draft (depending on the draft) is much harder, because even the best scouting staffs have limited information to forecast what each player will become. Ultimately, no one can predict the future.
But there's one thing we do know. The best of the best players, more often than not, are found at the top of the draft. A last place finish guarantees at least a 3OA pick. Everyone in the bottom 10 has a shot at the first pick, though the lower you are, the better your odds are. Various things can be not guaranteed, though have different likelihoods of coming true. Odds aren't everything, but they do matter, and it's important to not lose sight of that.
If building a cup contender without first drafting top 3 picks was a viable strategy, everyone would be doing it. But it almost never happens. Building cup contenders with elite talent drafted at the top of a draft is
way more common.
At 2-9, the Flames had a great chance to make this a year where they acquire a top pick. But now it's maybe too late. Where does this leave the Flames, now that they're climbing out of the basement and several teams around them are in free fall? Not in a great position. No realistic path to the playoffs, and no realistic path to a top pick. The rebuild will be set back a year. Or maybe a bunch of years if they continue finishing just below the playoff cutline as an annual tradition. This could very well be the case.
Good development, obviously yes. Smart trades sounds great, but it's hard to pull off because every team you try to make a smart deal with is also trying to make a smart deal for themselves.
As for taking a shot at me personally, I don't care to respond to that. I would just suggest that maybe, just maybe, there's a small part of you that can have some understanding for the frustration many of us are having, those of us who watched the 04 run and have been waiting patiently for this team to make it back to the conference finals. We've watched and watched as this team has always purely taken a "make the playoffs this year by any means necessary" approach instead of taking more of a long view. Conny has rectified this to some extent, but you still hear Mr Baloney insisting that the team is pushing for the playoffs this year. Do you feel frustration when you hear that? I do.
In the end, none of us have any control nor influence over what the team actually does. On that you're right. Nevertheless, we care. We want to see them win a cup, but they don't appear to be on a path toward doing that. And that's what's hard to accept.